 Even the facts of science may dust the mind by their dryness, unless they are in a sense effaced each morning, or rather rendered fertile by the dews of fresh and living truth. Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.  The Writings of Henry David Thoreau - Page 279by Henry David Thoreau - 1893Full view - About this book
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1884 - 408 pages
...subjects are thrust on their attention. I think even the facts of science may dust them by their dryness, unless they are in a sense effaced each morning, or...rendered fertile by the dews of fresh and living truth. Every thought which passes through the mind helps to wear and tear it, and to deepen the ruts, which,... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1884 - 408 pages
...subjects are thrust on their attention. I think even the facts of science may dust them by their dryness, unless they are in a sense effaced each morning, or...rendered fertile by the dews of fresh and living truth. Every thought which passes through the mind helps to wear and tear it, and to deepen the ruts, which,... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1884 - 436 pages
...subjects are thrust on their attention. I think even the facts of science may dust them by their dryness, unless they are in a sense effaced each morning, or...rendered fertile by the dews of fresh and living truth. Every thought which passes through the mind helps to wear and tear it, and to deepen the ruts, which,... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau (Schriftsteller, USA) - 1884 - 406 pages
...ribjects are thrust on their attention. I think even the facts of science may dust them by their dryness, unless they are in a sense effaced each morning, or...rendered fertile by the dews of fresh and living truth. Every thought which passes through the mind helps to wear and tear it, and to deepen the ruts, which,... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1890 - 174 pages
...YANKEE ยป CA.VADA, ETC., p. 266. Even the facts of science may dust the mind by their dryness, un l e ss they are in a sense effaced each morning, or rather...us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven. freedom but , Political Do we call this the land of the a means. freer . . . What is the value of any... | |
 | Henry S. Salt - 1890 - 340 pages
...Conventionalities are at length as badas impurities. Even the facts of science may dust the mind by their dryness, unless they are in a sense effaced each morning, or...rendered fertile by the dews of fresh and living truth." The eager self-seeking restlessness of modern society, with its ignorance or disregard of the claims... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1901 - 324 pages
...at length ' 1 . as bad as impurities. Even the facts of science may dust the mind by their dryness, unless they are in a sense effaced each morning, or...living truth. Knowledge does not come to us by details, bat < in flashes of light from heaven. Yes, every thought that . I passes through the mind helps to... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 462 pages
...Conventionalities are at length as bad as impurities. Even the facts of science may dust the mind by their dryness, unless they are in a sense effaced each morning, or...thought that passes through the mind helps to wear arid tear it, and to deepen the ruts, which, as in the streets of Pompeii, evince how much it has been... | |
 | Cyphron Seymour Coler - 1899 - 252 pages
...not a graduate of West Point. Page and Olney never took a college course. "Knowledge," says Thoreau, "does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven." No man is every day at his best. We should prize highly those moments of our lives when the soul is... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1978 - 148 pages
...highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence. Excursions, "Walking" Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven. Miscellanies, "Life Without Principle' ' The universe is wider than our views of it. Walden, "Conclusion"... | |
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