Quote #39

Man is a tool-using animal...Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

More from Thomas Carlyle

  1. He who first shortened the labor of copyists by device of movable types was disbanding hired armies, and cashiering most kings and senates,…
  2. Be not the slave of Words.
  3. No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
  4. 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 q…
  5. The Book had in a high degree excited us to self-activity, which is the best effect of any book.
  6. Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe.
  7. There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done.
  8. Wonder is the basis of worship.

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