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I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life. To put to rout all that was not life. And not, when I come to die, discover that I had not lived.
All that man can say or do that can possibly concern mankind is, in some shape or other, to tell the story of his love - to sing, and if he is fortunate and keeps alive he will be forever in love. This alone is to be alive to the extremities. It is such a pity that this divine creature should ever suffer from cold feet. A still greater pity that the coldness so often reaches to his heart.Henry David Thoreau
Człowiek podróżujący samotnie, może wyruszyć dziś; lecz ten, który podróżuje w towarzystwie musi czekać dopóki inni są gotowi.Henry David Thoreau Okoliczności: Walden(1854),I,Economy
Nota: Walden(1854),I,Economy
Poszedłem do lasu, ponieważ chciałem żyć z rozmysłem, aby poznać tylko podstawowe fakty z życia i zobaczyć, czy nie mogłem się nauczyć, czego miał nauczać, a kiedy przyszło mi umrzeć, odkryłem, że nie żyłem.Henry David Thoreau Okoliczności: Walden(1854), II, Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
Our life is frittered away by detail.Henry David Thoreau
It is not enough to be busy . . . the question is: what are we busy about?Henry David Thoreau
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at its root.Henry David Thoreau
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.Henry David Thoreau
I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.Henry David Thoreau
A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.Henry David Thoreau Okoliczności: Live Without Principle
In wildness is the preservation of the world.Henry David Thoreau Okoliczności: from Walking
There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.Henry David Thoreau Okoliczności: from Live Without Principle
That government is best which governs least.Henry David Thoreau Okoliczności: from Civil Disobedience
Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.Henry David Thoreau Okoliczności: from Walden
The world is but a canvas to the imagination.Henry David Thoreau
Uważaj na technologię. To często zaledwie udoskonalone środki dla nieudoskonalonych celów.Henry David Thoreau
The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.Henry David Thoreau
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.Henry David Thoreau
To reget deeply is to live afresh.Henry David Thoreau
It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.Henry David Thoreau
Government never furthered any enterprise but the alacrity with which it got out of the way.Henry David Thoreau
What a man thinks of himself that is what determines, or rather indicates his fate.Henry David Thoreau
The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.Henry David Thoreau
Prawda dla prawnika to nie Prawda, ale spójność, albo konsekwentna użyteczność.Henry David Thoreau
Pod rządem, który wtrąca do więzień bez sprawiedliwości, właściwe miejsce dla sprawiedliwego to także więzienie.Henry David Thoreau Okoliczności: from Civil Disobedience
The ways by which you may get money almost without exception lead downward.Henry David Thoreau Okoliczności: from Live Without Principle
Any fool can make a rule and every fooHenry David Thoreau
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.Henry David Thoreau
Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.Henry David Thoreau
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 Okoliczności: from Civil Disobedience
Nie znam nic bardziej mobilizującego niż niekwestionowana zdolność człowieka do ulepszania swojego życia poprzez świadome starania.Henry David Thoreau
Większość ludzi żyje życiem cichej desperacji i idzie do grobów z pieśnią ciągle w sobie.Henry David Thoreau
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.Henry David Thoreau
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.Henry David Thoreau
I do not wish to kill nor to be killed, but I can foresee circumstances in which these things would be by me unavoidable.Henry David Thoreau
I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.Henry David Thoreau
Time is but the stream I go a-fishin in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Itls thin current slides away, but eternity remains.Henry David Thoreau
When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly...I think-- Any fool can make a rule And every fool will mind it.Henry David Thoreau
Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry. Men say that a stitch in time saves nine, and so they take a thousand stitiches today to save nine tomorrow.Henry David Thoreau
We are sometimes made aware of a kindness long passed, and realize that there have been times when our friends' thoughts of us were of so pure and lofty a character that they passed over us like the winds of heaven unnoticed; when they treated us not as what we were, but as what we aspired to be. -- from A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers 56.One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then.Henry David Thoreau
Nie przejmuj się, gdy zarzucą Ci, że budujesz zamki w powietrzu. To jest właśnie miejsce, w którym powinno się je stawiać. Potem wystarczy, że dobudujesz im fundamenty.Henry David Thoreau
Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives; I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide.Henry David Thoreau
What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.Henry David Thoreau
What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.Henry David Thoreau
No one is so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.Henry David Thoreau
How vain it is to sit down and write when you have not stood up to live.Henry David Thoreau
Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.Henry David Thoreau
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.Henry David Thoreau
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.Henry David Thoreau
Things do not change: we change.Henry David Thoreau
It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around.Henry David Thoreau
Every individual is equal and has the same fundamental human rights as others in a relationship, regardless of roles and titles. Robert E. Alberti, Michael L. Emmons in Your Perfect Right It takes two to speak truth---one to speak and another to hear.Henry David Thoreau
There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one hacking at the root.Henry David Thoreau
Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.Henry David Thoreau
Potrzeba dwóch do mówienia prawdy - jeden mówi a drugi słucha.Henry David Thoreau
If a man does not keep pace with his companions perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears however measured and far away.Henry David Thoreau
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.Henry David Thoreau
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.Henry David Thoreau
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.Henry David Thoreau
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.Henry David Thoreau
That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.Henry David Thoreau
In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, thought they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.Henry David Thoreau
It is never too late to give up our prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however ancient can be trusted without proof. What every body echos or in silence passes by as true today may turn out to be falsehood tomorrow, mere smoke of opinion, which some had trusted for a cloud that would sprinkle fertilizing rain on their fields. What old people say you cannot do you try and find out you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.Henry David Thoreau
Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.Henry David Thoreau Okoliczności: Walden
The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred million to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive ... We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.Henry David Thoreau
Problem solving and creativity Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity. I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail.Henry David Thoreau Okoliczności: Walden
In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds. Simplify, simplify.Henry David Thoreau Okoliczności: Walden
There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness.Henry David Thoreau Okoliczności: Walden
In wildness is the preservation of the World.Henry David Thoreau Okoliczności: Walking
The birds I heard today, which, fortunately, did not come within the scope of my science, sang as freshly as if it had been the first morning of creation.Henry David Thoreau
The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them.Henry David Thoreau Okoliczności: Walden(1854), III, Reading
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.Henry David Thoreau Okoliczności: Walden(1854),V, Solitude
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.Henry David Thoreau
Chcę żyć pełnią życia, chcę wyssać wszystkie soki życia. (...) By nie odkryć tuż przed śmiercią, że nie umiałem żyć.Henry David Thoreau
Życie miejskie: miliony ludzi, których dzieli wspólna samotność.Henry David Thoreau
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.Henry David Thoreau
I begin to see an object when I cease to understand it.Henry David Thoreau
It is only necessary to behold the least fact or phenomenon, however familiar, from a point a hair's breadth aside from our habitual path or routine, to be overcome, enchanted by its beauty and significance ... To perceive freshly, with fresh senses is to be inspired.Henry David Thoreau Okoliczności: Walden
Direct your eye right inward, and you'll find a thousand regions in your mind yet undiscovered. Travel them and be expert in home-cosmography.Henry David Thoreau Okoliczności: Walden
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.Henry David Thoreau
Consider what is truly respectable, not what is respected.Henry David Thoreau
Jako pojedynczy krok nie będzie ścieżki na ziemi, więc pojedyncza myśl nie wyżłobi ścieżki w umyśle. Aby zrobić głęboką fizyczną ścieżkę, chodzimy raz za razem. Aby wytyczyć głęboką ścieżkę mentalną, musimy zastanowić się nad tym, jakie myśli chcemy dominować w naszym życiu.Henry David Thoreau
To nie to, na co patrzysz, ma znaczenie, ale to, co widzisz.Henry David Thoreau
A gun gives you the body, not the bird.Henry David Thoreau
Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science.Henry David Thoreau
Zobacz wszystkie sentencje w repozytoriumTam pracowaliśmy, przeglądając mitologię, zaokrąglając bajkę tu i tam, i budując zamki w powietrzu, dla których ziemia nie dała żadnego godnego fundamentu.Henry David Thoreau
