Maxioms by Thomas Carlyle
Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.
Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.
The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how;
the Rhetorician can prove that he ought read more
The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how;
the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and
carried all with him.
In the end, everything is a gag.
In the end, everything is a gag.
It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to read more
It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to
that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however read more
We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to
that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we
can find nowhere in his works, that "ridicule is the test of
truth."
