Literature, so far as it is Literature, is an ‘apocalypse of Nature,’ a revealing of the ‘open secret.
Thomas CarlyleWondrous indeed is the virtue of a true Book.
Thomas CarlyleNo man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offense.
Thomas CarlyleIf Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
Thomas CarlyleTags: religion atheism atheist
Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.
Thomas CarlyleTags: inspirational music
Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are
Thomas CarlyleTell a man he is brave, and you help him to become so.
Thomas CarlyleSurely of all ‘rights of man’, this right of the ignorant man to be guided by the wiser, to be, gently or forcibly, held in the true course by him, is the indisputablest.
Thomas CarlyleTags: government
Man’s unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.
Thomas CarlyleMan is a tool using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
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