Zitate von Henry David Thoreau
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Die öffentliche Meinung ist ein schwacher Tyrann verglichen mit unserer privaten Meinung.
Informationen über Henry David Thoreau
Schriftsteller, Philosoph, "Über die Pflicht zum Ungehorsam gegen den Staat", "Walden oder Leben in den Wäldern", "Die Welt und ich", "Leben aus den Wurzeln" (USA, 1817 - 1862).
Henry David Thoreau · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
Henry David Thoreau wäre heute 206 Jahre, 9 Monate, 26 Tage oder 75.541 Tage alt.
Geboren am 12.07.1817 in Concord/Massachusetts
Gestorben am 06.05.1862 in Concord/Massachusetts
Sternzeichen: ♋ Krebs
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I have travelled a good deal in Concord.
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I heartily accept the motto, 'That government is best which governs least' . . . Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which I also believe, - 'That government is best which governs not at all.'
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I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
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I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulette I could have worn.
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I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
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I think to myself I must attend to my diet; I must get up earlier and take a morning walk; I must have done with luxuries and devote myself to my muse. So I dam up my stream, and my waters gather to a head. I am frightened with the thought.
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I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much care of ourselves as we honestly bestow elsewhere.
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I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life . . . to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience.
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I was determined to know beans.
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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
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If I knew . . . that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
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If I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior.
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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
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If one listens to the faintest but constant suggestions of his genius, which are certainly true, he sees not to what extremes, or even insanity, it may lead him; and yet that way, as he grows more resolute and faithful, his road lies.
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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; there is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
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In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and the future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line.
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In the long run you hit only what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high.
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In wildness is the preservation of the world.
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It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
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It is a great art to saunter.