Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Hinduism

• In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita, in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seems puny and trivial.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Morning, Philosophy, Gita

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “Walden: Life in the Woods”, p.184, Gibbs Smith

• Whenever I have read any part of the Vedas, I have felt that some unearthly and unknown light illuminated me. In the great teaching of the Vedas, there is no touch of sectarianism. It is of all ages, climbs, and nationalities and is the royal road for the attainment of the Great Knowledge. When I read it, I feel that I am under the spangled heavens of a summer night.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Teaching, Night

  "Explore Hinduism". Book by Bansi Pandit, p. 21, 2005.

• The New Testament is remarkable for its pure morality; the best of the Hindoo Scripture, for its pure intellectuality. The readeris nowhere raised into and sustained in a higher, purer, or rarer region of thought than in the Bhagvat-Geeta.... It is unquestionably one of the noblest and most sacred scriptures which have come down to us.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Bible, Sacred Scripture, Morality

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.112, Courier Corporation

• The very austerity of the Brahmans is tempting to the devotional soul, as a more refined and nobler luxury. Wants so easily and gracefully satisfied seem like a more refined pleasure. Their conception of creation is peaceful as a dream.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dream, Luxury, Simplicity

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.547, Simon and Schuster

• English sense has toiled, but Hindoo wisdom never perspired.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wisdom, Common Sense, Common

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.105, Xist Publishing

• As our domestic fowls are said to have their original in the wild pheasant of India, so our domestic thoughts have their prototypes in the thoughts of her philosophers.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Philosophical, Thoughtful, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.105, Xist Publishing

• It would be worthy of the age to print together the collected Scriptures or Sacred Writings of the several nations, the Chinese, the Hindoos, the Persians, the Hebrews, and others, as the Scripture of mankind. The New Testament is still, perhaps, too much on the lips and in the hearts of men to be called a Scripture in this sense. Such a juxtaposition and comparison might help to liberalize the faith of men.... This would be the Bible, or Book of Books, which let the missionaries carry to the uttermost parts of the earth.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Writing, Heart

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.101, Xist Publishing

• As for the tenets of the Brahmans, we are not so much concerned to know what doctrines they held, as that they were held by any. We can tolerate all philosophies.... It is the attitude of these men, more than any communication which they make, that attracts us.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Attitude, Philosophy

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.547, Simon and Schuster

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