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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, 20 Tage oder 75.535 Tage alt.

Geboren am 12.07.1817 in Concord/Massachusetts
Gestorben am 06.05.1862 in Concord/Massachusetts
Sternzeichen: ♋ Krebs

• There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

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• There is no remedy for love but to love more.

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• There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

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• There will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.

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• Those are the truly rich whose pleasures cost the least.

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• Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in.

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• Time is but the stream I go a fishing in.

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

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• To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts; but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates.

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• To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

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• To regret deeply is to live afresh.

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• Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

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• We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, and any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

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• We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

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• We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the old world some weeks nearer to the new.

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• We do not enjoy poetry unless we know it to be poetry.

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• We make ourselves rich by making our wants few.

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• We shall see but little if we require to understand what we see. How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding.

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• What a fool he must be who thinks that his El Dorado is anywhere but where he lives.

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• What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

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