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| 973c280 | Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice. Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves, but have no sympathy with the spirit which may still animate the.. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 8c0a3f4 | Friendship is first, Friendship last. But it is equally impossible to forget our Friends, and to make them answer to our ideal. When they say farewell, then indeed we begin to keep them company. How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual Friends, that we may go and meet their ideal cousins. I would that I were worthy to be any man's Friend. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 0cae868 | Even the utmost good-will and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody. We do not wish for Friends to feed and clothe our bodies, -neighbors are kind enough for that, -but to do the like office to our spirits. For this few are rich enough, however well disposed they may be. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 0865fcb | I desire that there may be as many different persons in the world as possible; but I would have each one be very careful to find out and pursue his own way, and not his father's or his mother's or his neighbor's instead. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 00200e9 | If you are cheated out of a single dollar by your neighbor, you do not rest satisfied with knowing that you are cheated, or with saying that you are cheated, or even with petitioning him to pay you your due; but you take effectual steps at once to obtain the full amount, and see that you are never cheated again. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 260b4d4 | Roads are made for horses and men of business. I do not travel in them much, comparatively, because I am not in a hurry to get to any tavern or grocery or livery-stable or depot to which they lead. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| adbf710 | It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even to most enormous wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 4713cf8 | No doubt you can get more in your market for a quart of milk than for a quart of blood, but that is not the market that heroes carry their blood to. | materialism money | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 165d126 | I too had woven a kind of basket of a delicate texture, but I had not made it worth any one's while to buy them. Yet not the less, in my case, did I think it worth my while to weave them, and instead of studying how to make it worth men's while to buy my baskets, I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| ada19ae | I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. --HENRY DAVID THOREAU, WALDEN | Sherry Turkle | ||
| af14f0e | We should be men first, and subjects afterward. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 721e028 | It is not my business to be petitioning the Governor or the Legislature any more than it is theirs to petition me; and if they should not hear my petition, what should I do then? But in this case the State has provided no way: its very Constitution is the evil. This | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 121fea5 | To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school . . . it is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically. --HENRY DAVID THOREAU | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 1df4dc7 | What if we feel a yearning to which no breast answers? | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 845aecc | I believe that, in this country, the press exerts a greater and a more pernicious influence than the church did in its worst period. We are not a religious people, but we are a nation of politicians. | politics religion | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 31adbc9 | Pico Iyer: "And at some point, I thought, well, I've been really lucky to see many, many places. Now, the great adventure is the inner world, now that I've spent a lot of time gathering emotions, impressions, and experiences. Now, I just want to sit still for years on end, really, charting that inner landscape because I think anybody who travels knows that you're not really doing so in order to move around--you're traveling in order to be m.. | beauty enlightenment faith humanity inner-landscape introspection mindfulness mystery nature peace spirit travel wisdom | Krista Tippett | |
| c7850eb | But never mind; faint heart never won true Friend. O Friend, may it come to pass, once, that when you are my Friend I may be yours. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| cc97ca7 | The moose will perhaps one day become extinct; but how naturally then, when it exists only as a fossil relic, and unseen as that, may the poet or sculptor invent a fabulous animal with similar branching and leafy horns, -- a sort of fucus or lichen in bone, -- to be the inhabitant of such a forest as this! | philosophy wildlife | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 671800d | for the people must have some complicated machinery or other, and hear its din, to satisfy that idea of government which they have. | delusion government | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 7818a19 | I please myself with imagining a State at last which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor; which even would not think it inconsistent with its own repose if a few were to live aloof from it, not meddling with it, nor embraced by it, who fulfilled all the duties of neighbors and fellow men. A State which bore this kind of fruit, and suffered it to drop off as fast as it ripened, would prepa.. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 8d46cc4 | To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour. | philosophy | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 7b8250e | I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest. What force has a multitude? They only can force me who obey a higher law than I. They force me to become like themselves. I do not hear of men being forced to live this way or that by masses of men. What sort of life were that to live? When I meet a government which says to me, "Your money or your life," why should I be in haste to give it my .. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 3432e64 | Is there not a sort of blood shed when the conscience is wounded? Through this wound a man's real manhood and immortality flow out, and he bleeds to an everlasting death. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 1bef813 | So it's best to walk alone, except that one is never entirely alone. As Henry David Thoreau wrote: 'I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.' To be buried in Nature is perpetually distracting. Everything talks to you, greets you, demands your attention: trees, flowers, the colour of the roads. The sigh of the wind, the buzzing of insects, the babble of streams, the impact of your feet on the .. | Frédéric Gros | ||
| e8786f5 | Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it. | political-systems politics respect | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 8d1b747 | I am not responsible for the successful working of the machinery of society. I am not the son of the engineer. I perceive that, when an acorn and a chestnut fall side by side, the one does not remain inert to make way for the other, but both obey their own laws, and spring and grow and flourish as best they can, till one, perchance, overshadows and destroys the other. If a plant cannot live according to nature, it dies; and so a man. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| c3857e0 | The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 97d5646 | 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 intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is not a part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it; and that is no more I than it is you. When the play, it may be t.. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 1268036 | And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident, or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked, or one steamboat blown up, or one cow run over on the Western Railroad, or one mad dog killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter - we never need read of another. [...] To a philosopher all "news", as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are o.. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| a030b06 | There were times when I could not afford to sacrifice the bloom of the present moment to any work, whether of the head or hands. I love a broad margin to my life. [...] They were not time subtracted from my life, but so much over and above my usual allowance. [...] This was sheer idleness to my fellow-townsmen, no doubt; but if the birds and flowers had tried me by their standard, I should not have been found wanting. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 08cdb9e | Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. -Henry David Thoreau | K.E. Kruse | ||
| 39c910c | The doctrines of despair, of spiritual or political tyranny or servitude, were never taught by such as shared the serenity of nature. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 09f9a39 | It is pleasant to walk over the beds of these fresh, crisp, and rustling leaves. How beautifully they go to their graves! how gently lay themselves down and turn to mould!--painted of a thousand hues, and fit to make the beds of us living. So they troop to their last resting-place, light and frisky. They put on no weeds, but merrily they go scampering over the earth, selecting the spot, choosing a lot, ordering no iron fence, whispering all.. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 05fe868 | The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful. Before we can adorn our houses with beautiful objects the walls must be stripped, and our lives must be stripped, and beautiful housekeeping and beautiful living be laid for a foundation; now, a taste for the beautiful is most cultivated out of doors, where there is no house and no housekeeper. | nature simplicity-in-life | Henry David Thoreau | |
| ed0971a | I do not wish to quarrel with any man or nation. I do not wish to split hairs, to make fine distinctions, or set myself up as better than my neighbors. I seek rather, I may say, even an excuse for conforming to the laws of the land. I am but too ready to conform to them. | law obedience peace politics unity | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 14fd0de | You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 936d4c7 | Yet this government never of itself furthered any enterprise, but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way. It does not keep the country free. It does not settle the West. It does not educate. The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 7637ee0 | The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveller's cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 0229be8 | Just so hollow and ineffectual, for the most part, is our ordinary conversation. Surface meets surface. When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip. We rarely meet a man who can tell us any news which he has not read in a newspaper, or been told by his neighbor; and, for the most part, the only difference between us and our fellow is, that he has seen the newspaper, or been out to tea, and we hav.. | gossip information information-overload nature news | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 36335f9 | The full humanization of man requires the breakthrough from the possession-centered to the activity-centered orientation, from selfishness and egotism to solidarity and altruism. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 28b1d46 | Existuje jeste jeden dalsi rozdil mezi logikou zjevneho a skryteho vypraveni. Ve zjevnem vypraveni existuje logicka kauzalni souvislost mezi vnejsimi udalostmi. Jonas chce plout pres more, protoze chce uteci pred Bohem, usne, protoze je unaven, je vrzen pres palubu, protoze je povazovan za pricinu boure a je pozren rybou, protoze se v mori vyskytuji drave ryby. Jedna udalost vyplyva z predchazejici. (Posledni cast pribehu je sice nerealisti.. | fromm psychology symbols | Erich Fromm | |
| f70ff9f | How should a man caught in this net of routine not forget that he is a man, a unique individual, one who is given only this one chance of living, with hopes and disappointments, with sorrow and fear, with the longing for love and the dread of the nothing and of separateness? | Erich Fromm | ||
| cbf967d | The myth identifies the beginning of human history with an act of choice, but it puts all emphasis on the sinfulness of this first act of freedom and the suffering resulting from it. Man and woman live in the Garden of Eden in complete harmony with each other and with nature. There is peace and no necessity to work; there is no choice, no freedom, no thinking either, Man is forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. He ac.. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 85ab283 | Freedom is not something we have, there is no such thing as freedom. Freedom is a quality of our personality: we are more or less free to resist pressure, more or less free to do what we want and to be ourselves. Freedom is always a question of increasing freedom one has, or decreasing it. | Erich Fromm |