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"The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity."
"A man thinking or working will always be alone, let him be where he will."
"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."
"Most men are satisfied if they read or hear read, and perchance have been convicted by the wisdom of one good book, the Bible, and for the rest of their lives vegetate and dissipate their faculties in what is called easy reading."
"What are these pines & these birds about? What is this pond a-doing? I must know a little more."