Thomas Carlyle ( 10 of 167 )
His religion at best is an anxious wish,--like that of Rabelais,
a great Perhaps.
His religion at best is an anxious wish,--like that of Rabelais,
a great Perhaps.
A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up.
A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up.
It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind
of work he is 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.
Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all
others, is it not the arrival read more
Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all
others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker in the world?
Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow
destruction.
Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow
destruction.
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves
together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and read more
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves
together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and
majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth
to rule.
The unspeakable Turk should be immediately struck out of the
question, and the country be left to honest European read more
The unspeakable Turk should be immediately struck out of the
question, and the country be left to honest European guidance.
A parliament speaking through reporters to Buncombe and the
Twenty-seven millions, mostly fools.
A parliament speaking through reporters to Buncombe and the
Twenty-seven millions, mostly fools.
Under all speech that is good for anything three lies a silence
that is better. Silence is deep as read more
Under all speech that is good for anything three lies a silence
that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow
as Time.
For the eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought
with it the means of seeing."
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For the eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought
with it the means of seeing."
- Thomas Carlyle,
