"We are acquainted with a mere pellicle..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau
We are acquainted with a mere pellicle of the globe on which we live. Most have not delved six feet beneath the surface, nor leaped as many above it. We know not where we are. Beside, we are sound asleep nearly half our time.
More by Henry David Thoreau
“To live a better life,--this surely can be done.”
“What a healthy out-of-door appetite it takes to relish the apple of life, the apple of the world, then!”
“There has always been the same amount of light in the world. The new and missing stars, the comets and eclipses, do not affect thegeneral illumination, for only our glasses appreciate them.”
More on Humanity
“I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don't like to see the people making fun of the animals, when it should be the other way around.”
“Blood is a juice of rarest quality.[Ger., Blut ist ein ganz beondrer Saft.]”
“Without books, we might just melt into the airwaves and be just another set of blips.”
More on Ignorance
“We see many instances of cities going down like sinking ships to their destruction. There have been such wrecks in the past and there surely will be others in the future, caused by the wickedness of captains and crews alike. For these are guilty men, whose sin is supreme ignorance of what matters most.”
“The masses are still ungrateful or ignorant. They prefer murder, poisonings, and crimes generally to a literature possessed of style and feeling.”
“Nothing betrays imbecility so much as the being insensible of it.”