Henry David Thoreau citations célèbres
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.
Walden, ou la vie dans les bois (1854)
Walden, ou la vie dans les bois (1854)
Civil Disobedience
Civil Disobedience
Civil Disobedience
Je suis simplement ce que je suis: Lettres à Harrison G.O. Blake
Henry David Thoreau: Citations en anglais
“Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.”
Variante: I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
Source: Walden
“Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.”
Source: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
“All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.”
Source: Walden
Source: Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
Original from Zig Ziglar https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Zig_Ziglar
Misattributed
“In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.”
Source: Walden
“Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.”
Source: Walden and Other Writings
Life Without Principle (1863)
Contexte: I wish to suggest that a man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. All great enterprises are self-supporting. The poet, for instance, must sustain his body by his poetry, as a steam planing-mill feeds its boilers with the shavings it makes. You must get your living by loving.
“A gun gives you the body, not the bird.”
Quoted by Ralph Waldo Emerson in Talks with Ralph Waldo Emerson http://books.google.com/books?id=IhA6AQAAIAAJ&q=%22A+gun+he+said+gives+you+the+body+not+the+bird%22&pg=PA86#v=onepage (1890) by Charles Johnson Woodbury
“No man ever followed his genius til it misled him.”
Source: Walden