"Beside some philosophers of larger vision, Carlyle..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau
Beside some philosophers of larger vision, Carlyle stands like an honest, half-despairing boy, grasping at some details only of their world systems.
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“be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.”
“The doctors are all agreed that I am suffering for want of society. Was never a case like it. First, I did not know that I was suffering at all. Secondly, as an Irishman might say, I had thought it was indigestion of the society I got.”
“Not till we are completely lost, or turned round, do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of Nature.”
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“To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.”
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“It generally appears outlandish until its carried out.”
“That very concentration of vision and intensity of purpose which is the characteristic of the artistic temperament is in itself a mode of limitation. To those who are preoccupied with the beauty of form nothing else seems of much importance.”
“The greatest tragedy to befall a person is to have sight but lack vision.”