Misfortunes occur only when a man is false.... Events circumstances etc. Have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.
Weitere Zitate von Henry David Thoreau
Zum Autor"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?"
"The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity."
"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."
"What are these pines & these birds about? What is this pond a-doing? I must know a little more."
"Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence."