As long as vibrating wires make music of harps, we do not want redeemers.
—Henry David Thoreau
Existentialist Apothegms
Life is the meaning of life.
“Why?” is both the question and the ultimate answer.
Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense?
—Henry David Thoreau
Rescue the drowning and tie your shoe strings.
—Henry David Thoreau
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
—Henry David Thoreau
