The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity.
Weitere Zitate von Henry David Thoreau
Zum Autor"True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance."
"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!"
"To know that we know what we know and that we do not know what we do not know that is true knowledge."
"What are these pines & these birds about? What is this pond a-doing? I must know a little more."
"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."
"I believe that, in this country, the press exerts a greater and a more pernicious influence than the church did in its worst period. We are not a religious people, but we are a nation of politicians."