The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
Weitere Zitate von Henry David Thoreau
Zum Autor"What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?"
"Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day."
"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."
"A man thinking or working will always be alone, let him be where he will."
"True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance."
"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?"