sábado, 13 de junho de 2009

Henry David Thoreau


Read not the Times. Read the Eternities. Conventionalities are at length as bad as impurities. Even the facts of science may dust the mind by their dryness, unless they are in a sense effaced each morning, or rather rendered fertile by the dews of fresh and living truth. Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

- Henry David Thoreau.

"Life without principle" (1863)