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Science has done much for us but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Philosophy dwells aloft in the Temple of Science, the divinity of its inmost shrine her dictates descend among men, but she herself descends not : whoso would behold her must climb with long and laborious effort, nay, still linger in the forecourt, till manifold trial have proved him worthy of admission into the interior solemnities.
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Freedom is the one purport, wisely aimed at, or unwisely, of all man's struggles, toilings and sufferings, in this earth.
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No man at bottom means injustice it is always for some obscure distorted image of a right that he contends: an obscure image diffracted, exaggerated, in the wonderfulest way by natural dimness and selfishness getting tenfold more diffracted by exasperation of contest, till at length it become all but irrecognis-able.
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The meaning of song goes deep. Who in logical words can explain the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite, and lets us for a moment gaze into that!
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Just in ratio as knowledge increases, faith diminishes.
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Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.
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A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country.
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The true Sovereign of the world, who moulds the world like soft wax, according to his pleasure, is he who lovingly sees into the world.
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To be true is manly, chivalrous, Christian to be false is mean, cowardly, devilish.
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A man ought to inquire and find out what he really and truly has an appetite for what suits his constitution and that, doctors tell him, is the very thing he ought to have in general. And so with books.
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It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being.
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Speech is great, but silence is greater.
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Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.
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Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
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Out of the lowest depths there is a path to the loftiest heights.
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The whole past is the procession of the present.
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It is in general more profitable to reckon up our defeats than to boast of our attainments.
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Enjoying things which are pleasant that is not the evil it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
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