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.

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