How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
Weitere Zitate von Henry David Thoreau
Zum Autor"What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?"
"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."
"I think that there is nothing not even crime more opposed to poetry to philosophy ay to life itself than this incessant business."
"City life - millions of people being lonesome together."
"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."
"Perhaps these pages are more particularly addressed to poor students. As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions as apply to them. I trust that none will stretch the seams in putting on the coat, for it may do good service to him whom it fits."