Henry David Thoreau: Frases en inglés

Variante: The only remedy for love is to love more.

Fuente: Walden

Walden (1854), p.370

Commonly misquoted, converted to imperative mood, as "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler".
Walden (1854)

Fuente: Walden

March 11, 1856
Journals (1838-1859)

Fuente: Walden (1854)
Contexto: 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. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. 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. For most men, it appears to me, are in a strange uncertainty about it, whether it is of the devil or of God, and have somewhat hastily concluded that it is the chief end of man here to "glorify God and enjoy him forever."

August 19, 1851
Journals (1838-1859)
Variante: How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Variante: It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Fuente: Walden

Variante: Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
Fuente: Walden and Other Writings

Fuente: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers