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writers are: Thomas Mann, George Orwell, Jack Kerouac, Thoreau, Aldous Huxley, James Joyce, Dostoievski, Hayek, Mises, Henry ... Castigo (Dostoiévski), Ciência e Política (Weber), Ealden ( Thoreau ), A Desobediência Civil (Thoreau), Admirável Mundo Novo (Aldous Huxley), Laranja Mecânica
a philosophical statement, indeed a philosopher, to best represent me, I think T Thoreau would be it; and he'd best summed it up with: "I went to ... not even crime, more opposed to poetry , to philosophy , ay, to life itself, than this incessant business" (Thoreau - Life Without Principle).
The Existential Loneliness Test
Throughout recorded human history, across different cultures, the state of being alone has been associated with vulnerability, despair, nobility, pe... ...
The American Lit. [cue applause] Test
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The my philosophy Test
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The are you a Romantic Test
So are you a Romantic? Would Lord Byron invite you to Geneva for a haunted summer break? Or perhaps you are better suited to keep Thoreau company at ... ...
Henry David Thoreau Quotations
David
Thoreau"Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around."Henry
David Thoreau"Men are born to succeed, not to fail."Henry David
Thoreau "Men have become the tools of their tools."Henry David
Thoreau"Money is not required to buy one necessity of the
soul."Henry David Thoreau
a call for disobedience
scholar from the 19th century, Henry
David Thoreau, penned the ideal that inspired the shape of the
movement for such figures as Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr. Thoreau, after spending a night in jail ... Thoreau wrote that we must
cast our “whole vote” for change (120).
Transcendentalism (hey-- I majored in English)
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David
Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, The Alcotts, Walt ... Henry David
Thoreau is considered to be the second most important figure during
the transcendentalism movement. Most famous for his work titled,
�Walden�, Thoreau believed strongly in the ideology that man could
rise to
What matters
Honestly, I could see having an American
holiday for Henry David Thoreau, since he inspired a lot of change
around the world (e.g., Gandhi. It's a little odd that Gandhi, who
was inspired by Thoreau, gets a holiday and Thoreau does not).
Is the Harvest Over?
For a minute
there, I thought you were talking about Thoreau and Walden. It
sounds a little bit Dr. Strangelovey, I know, but maintaining
bodily heat (and all that includes, like eating) is what Thoreau
determined was his singular reason to work.
Favorite Quotes?
Henry David Thoreau,
Walden, Conclusion, 1854 Do not be too moral. You may cheat
yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good;
be good for something. Henry David Thoreau "One sees clearly only
with the heart.
Philosophies
search with Epicureanism, and also
a bit with Stoicism and, because of those two and because Thoreau
is something of a hero to me, Transcendentalism. ... And Thoreau seemed to be more of a stoic
than anything.
your favourite short HORROR stories and poems
It was an interesting place, Ralph Waldo
Emerson visited it, Thoreau.
Get your broke ass a job
:P westsurfer:You guys are not
considering great philosophers like Henry David Thoreau.
