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Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle

Scottish writer and historicus

Lived from: 1795 - 1881

Category: History and sociology | Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 4 december 1795 Died: 5 february 1881

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  • Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
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  • Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.
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  • Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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  • Selfactivity, which is the best effect of any book.
    Sartor Resartus
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  • Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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  • Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.
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  • Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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  • Silence is more eloquent than words.
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  • Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.
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  • Society is founded upon cloth.
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  • Song is the heroics of speech.
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  • Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
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  • Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.
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  • Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles.
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  • Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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  • Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.
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  • Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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  • That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
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  • The actual well seen is ideal.
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  • The archenemy is the arch stupid!
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