What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
Weitere Zitate von Henry David Thoreau
Zum Autor"If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen."
"The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity."
"They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar."
"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."
"The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency."
"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."