Quote #43
Wonder is the basis of worship.
More from Thomas Carlyle
- Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe.
- What you see, yet can not see over, is as good as infinite.
- 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…
- 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.
- Be not the slave of Words.
- With stupidity and sound digestion man may front much.
- Man is a tool-using animal...Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
- Alas! the fearful Unbelief is unbelief in yourself.