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Quotations of selected author

Thomas Carlyle

1. "The history of the world is but the biography of great men."

categories: History and Nations

2. "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none."

source: "Heroes and Hero-Worship"

categories: Defeates and Mistakes

3. "Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time."

source: "Critical and Miscellaneous Essays"

categories: Oration and Silence -:- Time and Passing

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 quite bury under the Finite."

source: "Sartor Resartus"

categories: Human

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

source: "Sartor Resartus"

categories: Human

6. "If 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."

categories: God and Religion -:- Various

7. "I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am."

categories: Nature and Animals -:- Science and Technology

8. "Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius."

categories: Art and Culture -:- Talent and Genius -:- Wit and Humor

9. "History, a distillation of rumour."

source: "History of the French Revolution"

categories: History and Nations

10. "France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams."

source: "History of the French Revolution"

categories: Authority, Government -:- History and Nations -:- Wit and Humor


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