Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?
Thomas CarlyleThe difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
Thomas CarlyleThere is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in idleness alone there is perpetual despair.
Thomas CarlyleConsider in fact, a body of six hundred and fifty-eight miscellaneous persons, set to consult about "business," with twenty-seven millions, mostly fools, assiduously listening to them, and checking and criticising them. Was there ever, since the world began, will there ever be till the world end, any "business" accomplished in these circumstances?
Thomas Carlyle