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Henry David Thoreau

Submitted by Taran on Tue, 05/24/2005 - 16:41

There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers. Yet it is admirable to profess because it was once admirable to live. To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, indepdendence, magnanimity, and trust.

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