The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
Weitere Zitate von Henry David Thoreau
Zum Autor"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."
"True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance."
"To know that we know what we know and that we do not know what we do not know that is true knowledge."
"Wildness is the preservation of the World."
"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?"
"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!"