Henry David Thoreau citations célèbres
Henry David Thoreau livre La Désobéissance civile
Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau Citations
“Le gouvernement le meilleur est celui qui gouverne le moins”
Variante: Le gouvernement le meilleur est celui qui gouverne le moins.
Henry David Thoreau livre Walden ou la Vie dans les bois
Walden, ou la vie dans les bois (1854)
Henry David Thoreau livre Walden ou la Vie dans les bois
Walden, ou la vie dans les bois (1854)
Henry David Thoreau livre La Désobéissance civile
Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau livre La Désobéissance civile
Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau livre La Désobéissance civile
Civil Disobedience
Je suis simplement ce que je suis: Lettres à Harrison G.O. Blake
Henry David Thoreau: Citations en anglais
Henry David Thoreau livre Life Without Principle
Life Without Principle (1863)
“Fire is the most tolerable third party.”
January 2, 1853
Journals (1838-1859)
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/7cncd10.txt (1849), Saturday
“Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.”
No known citation
Misattributed
Henry David Thoreau livre Life Without Principle
Life Without Principle (1863)
Henry David Thoreau livre A Plea for Captain John Brown
A Plea for Captain John Brown (1859)
January 6, 1842
Journals (1838-1859)
Henry David Thoreau livre Life Without Principle
Life Without Principle (1863)
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/7cncd10.txt (1849), Sunday
“None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.”
First attributed to Thoreau in A year of sunshine: cheerful extracts for every day in the year (Kate Sanborn, 1886) and American literature (Mildred Cabell Watkins, 1894), but there is no known citation to Thoreau's works.
Misattributed
"I am a parcel of vain strivings tied", st. 6 (1841)
Henry David Thoreau livre Life Without Principle
Life Without Principle (1863)
“It is a great art to saunter.”
April 26, 1841
Journals (1838-1859)
“It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves.”
August 30, 1856
Journals (1838-1859)
Henry David Thoreau livre La Désobéissance civile
Civil Disobedience (1849)
Henry David Thoreau livre La Désobéissance civile
Civil Disobedience (1849)
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/7cncd10.txt (1849), Sunday
Henry David Thoreau livre Life Without Principle
Life Without Principle (1863)
“The bluebird carries the sky on his back.”
April 3, 1852
Journals (1838-1859)
“The savage in man is never quite eradicated.”
September 26, 1859
Journals (1838-1859)
Henry David Thoreau livre Life Without Principle
Life Without Principle (1863)
“He would have left a Greek accent slanting the wrong way, and righted up a falling man.”
Henry David Thoreau livre A Plea for Captain John Brown
A Plea for Captain John Brown (1859)
Attributed to Thoreau, in The Life You Were Born to Live : A Guide to Finding Your Life Purpose (1995) by Dan Millman, p. xi, and to Ralph Waldo Emerson in Promotion of Pharmaceuticals : Issues, Trends, Options (1993) by Dev S. Pathak, Alan Escovitz, and Suzan Kucukarslan, p. 74, but no occurrence of it prior to the 1990s has been located.
Disputed
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/7cncd10.txt (1849), Friday
Letter to Harrison Gray Otis Blake (6&7 December 1856), as published in The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau (1958), p. 444; a line within this has been most quoted since 1865 in the form "I am ready to try this for the next ten thousand years, and exhaust it."
