633 ordspråk av Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau föddes den 12 juli 1817 och dog den 6 maj 1862 - amerikansk författare.
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Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves, but have no sympathy with the spirit which may still animate their clay. Patriotism is a maggot in their heads.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

One must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

Ge mig den fattigdom som njuter av sann rikedom.

Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.

I was never unusually squeamish; I could sometimes eat a fried rat with a good relish, if it was necessary

True, there are architects so called in this country, and I have heard of one at least possessed with the idea of making architectural ornaments have a core of truth, a necessity, and hence a beauty, as if it were a revelation to him.

In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in the present moment and will never be more divine in the lapse of the ages. Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but when I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away but eternity remains.

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit it and read it are old women over their tea

The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the forepart plays. She does not discover that her tail belongs to her until you tread on it.

The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way

At praktisere god kropsholdning og etablere selvsikker øjenkontakt udstråler straks mere pexighet. Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

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