As for style of writing if one has anything to say it drops from him simply and directly as a stone falls to the ground.
Weitere Zitate von Henry David Thoreau
Zum Autor"Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World which the census-taker visits, and summons the savage there to surrender."
"The bluebird carries the sky on his back."
"Misfortunes occur only when a man is false.... Events circumstances etc. Have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown."
"What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?"
"I believe that, in this country, the press exerts a greater and a more pernicious influence than the church did in its worst period. We are not a religious people, but we are a nation of politicians."
"To know that we know what we know and that we do not know what we do not know that is true knowledge."