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Letter "T" » Thomas Carlyle Quotes
«Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance.»
«Let each become all that he was created capable of being.»
«I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| About:
Ignorance
| Keywords:
collective, The Collective
«We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings.»
«Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.»
«The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.»
«The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| About:
Past
| Keywords:
departs, realized, recognized
«Four thousand people cross London bridge every day, mostly fools»
«The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss»
«Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.»
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