I have traveled a good deal in Concord; and everywhere, in shops, and offices, and fields, the inhabitants have appeared to me to be doing penance in a thousand remarkable ways.
Henry David ThoreauTags: life
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!
Henry David ThoreauTags: inspirational-quote
Unsere Geselligkeit ist im allgemeinen zu billig. Wir treffen einander in viel zu kurzen Zeitabständen, lassen uns nicht die Zeit, neuen Wert füreinander zu gewinnen. Wir treffen uns dreimal am Tag zu den Mahlzeiten und geben uns gegenseitig Kostproben von dem ranzigen Stück Käse, das wir sind. Wir müssen uns auf bestimmte Regeln, Etikette und Höflichkeit genannt, einigen, um unsere häufigen Zusammenkünfte erträglich zu gestalten und es nicht zum offenen Krieg zwischen uns kommen zu lassen. [...] Wir leben so dicht nebeneinander, daß wir uns im Wege sind und übereinander stoplern. Dadurch verlieren wir meiner Ansicht nach an gegenseitiger Achtung.
Henry David ThoreauThe true harvest of my life is intangible - a little star dust caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched.
Henry David ThoreauTags: life
No doubt you can get more in your market for a quart of milk than for a quart of blood, but that is not the market that heroes carry their blood to.
Henry David ThoreauTags: money heroism materialism
Men come tamely home at night only from the next field or streeet, where their household echoes haunt, and their life pines because it breathes its own breath over again; their shadows, morning and evening, reach farther than their daily steps. We should come home from far, from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day, with new experience and character
Henry David ThoreauWhich is the best man to deal with,-he who knows nothing about a subject, and, what is extremely rare, knows that he knows nothing, or he who really knows something about it, but thinks that he knows all?
Henry David ThoreauWhat 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?
Henry David ThoreauI am grateful for what I am and have. My Thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing to definite - only a sense of existence
Henry David ThoreauIs a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it not possible to take a step further towards recognizing and organizing the rights of man?
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