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?
Weitere Zitate von Henry David Thoreau
Zum Autor"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."
"Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence."
"True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance."
"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."
"Wildness is the preservation of the World."