Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
Weitere Zitate von Henry David Thoreau
Zum Autor"The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity."
"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."
"True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance."
"I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."
"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?"
"Our life is frittered away by detail...Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let our affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand...Simplify, simplify!"