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 never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."
"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!"
"To know that we know what we know and that we do not know what we do not know that is true knowledge."
"Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day."
"I believe that, in this country, the press exerts a greater and a more pernicious influence than the church did in its worst period. We are not a religious people, but we are a nation of politicians."