The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
Weitere Zitate von Henry David Thoreau
Zum Autor"Wildness is the preservation of the World."
"I thus found that the student who wishes for a shelter can obtain one for a lifetime at an expense not greater than the rent which he now pays annually. If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself; and my shortcomings and inconsistencies do not affect the truth of my statement."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I think that there is nothing not even crime more opposed to poetry to philosophy ay to life itself than this incessant business."