Henry David Thoreau híres idézetei
Henry David Thoreau Idézetek az életkorról
Henry David Thoreau Idézetek a világról
Henry David Thoreau idézetek
Henry David Thoreau: Idézetek angolul
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
Változat: The only remedy for love is to love more.
“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
Henry David Thoreau könyv Walden ou la vie dans les bois
Forrás: Walden
“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”
Henry David Thoreau könyv Walden ou la vie dans les bois
Forrás: Walden
“Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.”
Henry David Thoreau könyv Walden ou la vie dans les bois
Walden (1854), p.370
Henry David Thoreau könyv Walden ou la vie dans les bois
Commonly misquoted, converted to imperative mood, as "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler".
Walden (1854)
Henry David Thoreau könyv Walden ou la vie dans les bois
Forrás: Walden
“That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
March 11, 1856
Journals (1838-1859)
Henry David Thoreau könyv Walden ou la vie dans les bois
Forrás: Walden (1854)
Kontextus: I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, 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, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion. For most men, it appears to me, are in a strange uncertainty about it, whether it is of the devil or of God, and have somewhat hastily concluded that it is the chief end of man here to "glorify God and enjoy him forever."
“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
August 19, 1851
Journals (1838-1859)
Változat: How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
“The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
Változat: It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
Henry David Thoreau könyv Walden ou la vie dans les bois
Forrás: Walden
“Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.”
Változat: Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
Forrás: Walden and Other Writings
“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.”
Henry David Thoreau A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Forrás: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
“I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.”
Forrás: On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.”
Henry David Thoreau könyv Walden ou la vie dans les bois
Forrás: Walden
“If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.”
Forrás: I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau könyv Walden ou la vie dans les bois
After December 6, 1845
Journals (1838-1859)
Forrás: Walden
“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”
Henry David Thoreau könyv Walden ou la vie dans les bois
Forrás: Walden
Henry David Thoreau könyv Life Without Principle
Life Without Principle (1863)
Kontextus: If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. As if a town had no interest in its forests but to cut them down!