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.
Weitere Zitate von Henry David Thoreau
Zum Autor"They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar."
"I think that there is nothing not even crime more opposed to poetry to philosophy ay to life itself than this incessant business."
"Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence."
"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?"
"A man thinking or working will always be alone, let him be where he will."
"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!"