"The fact is, mental philosophy is very..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“As for the dispute about solitude and society, any comparison is impertinent. It is an idling down on the plane at the base of a mountain, instead of climbing steadily to its top.”

“The man who thrusts his manners upon me does as if he were to insist on introducing me to his cabinet of curiosities, when I wished to see himself.”

“When my legs begin to move, the thoughts begin to flow.”

“Our drives are reducible to the will to power. The will to power is the ultimate fact at which we arrive.”

“Philosophical systems are wholly true for their founders only.”

“The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the life too closely examined may not be lived at all.”

“The most impactful dollars that Australia can spend are actually what goes to help the poorest.”

“So long as freedom from hunger is only half achieved, so long as two thirds of the nations have food deficits, no citizen, no nation can afford to be satisfied. We have the ability, as members of the human race, we have the means, we have the capacity to eliminate hunger from the face of the earth in our lifetime. We only need the will.”

“Ne'er ask me what raiment I'll wear, for I have no more doublets than backs, no more stockings than legs, nor no more shoes than feet--nay, sometime more feet than shoes, or such shoes as my toes look through the overleather.”