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"The bluebird carries the sky on his back."
"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live."
"What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?"
"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."
"As for style of writing if one has anything to say it drops from him simply and directly as a stone falls to the ground."
"Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence."