torsdag 29. november 2012

Walden and Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau

Her er en oversikt over de stedene som skilte seg ut for meg;

ECONOMY:
s50: The mass of men lead lives of quite desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
s51: What old people say you cannot do, you try, and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
s57: To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, {..}. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.

WHERE I LIVED:
s134: To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
s135: I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, {..}
s137: Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry.
s138: To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

READING:
s146: Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
s155: Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

BAKER FARM:
s255: We should come home from far from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day, with new experience and character.

CONCLUSION:
s373: Sometimes we are unclined to class those who are once-and-a-halfwitted, because we appreciate only a third of their wit.
s377: It is life near the bone where it is sweetest.

CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE:
s387: Can there not be a goverment in witch majorities do not virtually decide right and wrong, but conscience? - in which majorities decide only those questions to which the rule of expediency is applicable?
s396: What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn.
s403: If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.

søndag 18. november 2012

Geistfelle

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.
Henry C. Link

fredag 9. november 2012

læring

«Det eneste som forstyrrer min læring, er min utdannelse.»
Albert Einstein

lørdag 3. november 2012

Mørkevei


"Det er ingenting så galt, at det ikke kan være godt for noe."
Opphav(?), meg selv

torsdag 1. november 2012

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- Lucius Annæus Seneca