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.
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?"
"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 sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?"
"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!"
"A man thinking or working will always be alone, let him be where he will."
"What are these pines & these birds about? What is this pond a-doing? I must know a little more."