Henry David Thoreau: Zitate auf Englisch (seite 3)

“Men have become the tools of their tools.”

“Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be.”

“On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world.”

“We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.”

“I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.”

“I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it's gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.”

“What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?”

“Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.”

“Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail.”

“I make myself rich by making my wants few.”

“I have a room all to myself; it is nature.”

“The heart is forever inexperienced.”

“In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood”

“Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice. Goodness is the only investment that never fails.”

“It takes two to speak the truth, — one to speak, and another to hear.”

“The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.”

“He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.”

“I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one.”

“I believe in the forest, and in the meadow, and in the night in which the corn grows.”