"We must heap up a great pile..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau
We must heap up a great pile of doing, for a small diameter of being.
More by Henry David Thoreau
“There is no treatment for adore, but to love far more.”
“Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made.”
“Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmie that he can? Let everyone mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made”
More on Action
“Knowledge is information that changes somethingor somebody - either by becoming grounds for actions, or by making anindividual (or an institution) capable of different or more effective action.”
“Means are ends in the making”
“Better to illuminate than merely to shine; to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.”
More on Being
“When you know you are of worth, you don't have to raise your voice, you don't have to become rude, you don't have to become vulgar; you just are. And you are like the sky is, as the air is, the same way water is wet. It doesn't have to protest.”
“Flow down and down in always widening rings of being.”
“All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.”