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Thomas Carlyle Quotes

«The archenemy is the arch stupid!»
«The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.»
«Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.»
«The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.»
«If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?»
«The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.»
«The actual well seen is ideal.»
«A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.»
«No violent extreme endures.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle (Essayist, Historian) | Keywords: endures
«In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by silence and by speech acting together, comes a double significance. In the symbol proper, what we can call a symbol, there is ever, more or less distinctly and directly, some embodiment and revelation of the Infinite; the Infinite is made to blend itself with the Finite, to stand visible, and as it were, attainable there. By symbols, accordingly, is man guided and commanded, made happy, made wretched.»