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!
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?"
"What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?"
"Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World which the census-taker visits, and summons the savage there to surrender."
"What are these pines & these birds about? What is this pond a-doing? I must know a little more."
"I think that there is nothing not even crime more opposed to poetry to philosophy ay to life itself than this incessant business."
"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."