I'm currently reading this book and couldn't help but post a few quotes from it.
"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."
"It is never too late to give up our prejudices"
"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."
"Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on you own track, then."
"The universe is wider than our views of it."
"In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."
"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth."
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Walden- Henry David Thoreau
Posted by Care at 8:30 PM
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"To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge!" - Thoreau (Economy)
"In the long run men hit only what they aim at." -Thoreau (Economy)
"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can leave alone." -Thoreau (Visitors)
There are some great ideas in that book! Thanks for sharing!
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