I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
Weitere Zitate von Henry David Thoreau
Zum Autor"A man thinking or working will always be alone, let him be where he will."
"The bluebird carries the sky on his back."
"What is most of our boasted so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something, which robs us of the advantage of our actual ignorance?"
"I think that there is nothing not even crime more opposed to poetry to philosophy ay to life itself than this incessant business."
"I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized."
"I thus found that the student who wishes for a shelter can obtain one for a lifetime at an expense not greater than the rent which he now pays annually. If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself; and my shortcomings and inconsistencies do not affect the truth of my statement."