A very few, as heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in the great sense, and men, serve the State with their consciences also, and so necessarily resist it for the most part; and they are commonly trea...

Henry David Thoreau

A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.

Henry David Thoreau

A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.

Henry David Thoreau

After a still winter night I awoke with the impression that some question had been put to me, which I had been endeavoring in vain to answer in my sleep, as what—how—when—where? But there was dawning...

Henry David Thoreau

After a still winter night I awoke with the impression that some question had been put to me, which I had been endeavoring in vain to answer in my sleep, as what—how—when—where? But there was dawning...

Henry David Thoreau

All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

Henry David Thoreau

All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

Henry David Thoreau

Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.

Henry David Thoreau

Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.

Henry David Thoreau

As for Doing-good,that is one of the professions which are full. Moreover, I have tried itfairly, and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agreewith my constitution. Probably I shoul...

Henry David Thoreau

As for Doing-good,that is one of the professions which are full. Moreover, I have tried itfairly, and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agreewith my constitution. Probably I shoul...

Henry David Thoreau

Tags: philosophy

Così i governi ci dimostrano quanto facilmente gli uomini possano essere ingannati e persino autoingannarsi nel proprio interesse.

Henry David Thoreau

Così i governi ci dimostrano quanto facilmente gli uomini possano essere ingannati e persino autoingannarsi nel proprio interesse.

Henry David Thoreau

De la literatura sólo nos atrae lo salvaje. El aburrimiento no es sino otro nombre para lo domesticado.

Henry David Thoreau

De la literatura sólo nos atrae lo salvaje. El aburrimiento no es sino otro nombre para lo domesticado.

Henry David Thoreau

Dreams are the touchstones of our characters. We are scarcely less afflicted when we remember some unworthiness in our conduct in a dream, than if it had been actual, and the intensity of our grief, w...

Henry David Thoreau

Dreams are the touchstones of our characters. We are scarcely less afflicted when we remember some unworthiness in our conduct in a dream, than if it had been actual, and the intensity of our grief, w...

Henry David Thoreau

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined.

Henry David Thoreau

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined.

Henry David Thoreau

Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient.

Henry David Thoreau

Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient.

Henry David Thoreau

He understood, as he would write in Walking, that the hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.

Henry David Thoreau

He understood, as he would write in Walking, that the hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.

Henry David Thoreau

How sweet it would be to treat men and things, for an hour, for just what they are! [...] When we are weary with travel, we lay down our load and rest by the wayside. So, when we are weary with the bu...

Henry David Thoreau

How sweet it would be to treat men and things, for an hour, for just what they are! [...] When we are weary with travel, we lay down our load and rest by the wayside. So, when we are weary with the bu...

Henry David Thoreau

I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship but a passtime, if we live simply and wisely

Henry David Thoreau

I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship but a passtime, if we live simply and wisely

Henry David Thoreau

I do not wish to flatter my townsmen, nor to be flattered by them, for that will not advance either of us.

Henry David Thoreau

I do not wish to flatter my townsmen, nor to be flattered by them, for that will not advance either of us.

Henry David Thoreau

I only know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, of thoughts and affections; and I'm sensible of a certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as another. However intens...

Henry David Thoreau

I only know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, of thoughts and affections; and I'm sensible of a certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as another. However intens...

Henry David Thoreau