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Before philosophy can teach by Experience, the Philosophy has to
be in readiness, the Experience must be gathered and intelligibly
recorded.
Topic: Philosophy
Source: Essays--On History
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Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought.
Topic: Poetry
Source: Heroes and Hero Worship (3)
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For there is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a
biography, the life of a man; also, it may be said, there is no
life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its
sort, rhymed or unrhymed.
Topic: Poetry
Source: Sir Walter Scott--London and Westminster Review
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A Poet without Love were a physical and metaphysical
impossibility.
Topic: Poets
Source: Essays--Burns
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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
Topic: Popularity
Source: None
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Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the
English that of the sea, to the Germans that of--the air!
Topic: Possession
Source: Essays--Richter
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He who first shortened the labor of Copyists by device of Movable
Types was disbanding hired armies and cashiering most Kings and
Senates, and creating a whole new Democratic world: he had
invented the Art of printing.
Topic: Printing
Source: Sartor Resartus (bk. I, ch. V)
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Speech is silvern, silence is golden.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: A Swiss Inscription, quoted in "Sartor Resartus", bk. III, ch. III
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Be firm or mild as the occasion may require.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: A Swiss Inscription, quoted in "Sartor Resartus", bk. III, ch. III
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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: A Swiss Inscription, quoted in "Sartor Resartus", bk. III, ch. III
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Do not expect good from another's death.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: A Swiss Inscription, quoted in "Sartor Resartus", bk. III, ch. III
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Don't promise twice what you can do at once.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: A Swiss Inscription, quoted in "Sartor Resartus", bk. III, ch. III
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In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: A Swiss Inscription, quoted in "Sartor Resartus", bk. III, ch. III
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Should anyone attempt to deceive you by false expressions, and
not be a true friend at heart, act in the same manner, and thus
art will defeat art. [If you would catch a man let him think he
is catching you.]
Topic: Proverbs
Source: A Swiss Inscription, quoted in "Sartor Resartus", bk. III, ch. III
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We see not our own backs.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: A Swiss Inscription, quoted in "Sartor Resartus", bk. III, ch. III
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Many diseases may be cured by abstinence.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: A Swiss Inscription, quoted in "Sartor Resartus", bk. III, ch. III
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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated
readings deserves to be read at all.
Topic: Reading
Source: Essays--Goethe's Helena
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We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever
it may be, as he saw it.
Topic: Reading
Source: Essays--Goethe's Helena
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Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and
deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve
rebelling against.
Topic: Rebellion
Source: Essays--Goethe's Works
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Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
Topic: Rebellion
Source: None
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His religion at best is an anxious wish,--like that of Rabelais,
a great Perhaps.
Topic: Religion
Source: Essays--Burns
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On the whole we must repeat the often repeated saying, that it is
unworthy a religious man to view an irreligious one either with
alarm or aversion; or with any other feeling than regret, and
hope, and brotherly commiseration.
Topic: Religion
Source: Essays--Voltaire
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Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
Topic: Repentance
Source: None
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The block of granite which is an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
Topic: Resolution
Source: None
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We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to
that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we
can find nowhere in his works, that "ridicule is the test of
truth."
Topic: Ridicule
Source: Essays--Voltaire
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Ridicule is the language of the devil.
Topic: Ridicule
Source: None
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Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of
thorns.
Topic: Royalty
Source: Past and Present (bk. III, ch. VIII)
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I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will
forgive me: that's his.
[Fr., Moi, je serai autocrate: c'est mon metier. Et le bon Dieu
me pardonnnera: c'est son metier.]
Topic: Royalty
Source: Past and Present (bk. III, ch. VIII)
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Sarcasm is the language of the devil, for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
Topic: Sarcasm
Source: None
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Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.
Topic: Science
Source: Latter Day Pamphlets (no. 1)
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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.
Topic: Sentiment
Source: None
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If I say that Shakespeare is the greatest of intellects, I have
said all concerning him. But there is more in Shakespeare's
intellect than we have yet seen. It is what I call an
unconscious intellect; there is more virtue in it that he himself
is aware of.
Topic: Shakespeare
Source: Essays--Characteristics of Shakespeare
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Speech is great; but silence is greater.
Topic: Silence
Source: Essays--Characteristics of Shakespeare
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Under all speech that is good for anything three lies a silence
that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow
as Time.
Topic: Silence
Source: Essays--Memoir of the Life of Scott
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Silence is more eloquent than words.
Topic: Silence
Source: Heroes and Hero Worship (lecture II)
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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves
together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and
majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth
to rule.
Topic: Silence
Source: Sartor Resartus (bk. III, ch. III)
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Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
Topic: Silence
Source: None
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Arrestment, sudden really as a bolt out of the blue has hit
strange victims.
Topic: Sky
Source: French Revolution (vol. III, p. 347)
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Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light
and another of darkness; on the confines of two everlasting
hostile empires, Necessity and Freewill.
Topic: Soul
Source: Essays--Goethe's Works
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Speak not at all, in any wise, till you have somewhat to speak;
care not for the reward of your speaking, but simply and with
undivided mind for the truth of your speaking.
Topic: Speech
Source: Essays--Biography
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Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
Topic: Speech
Source: None
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The spiritual is the parent of the practical.
Topic: Spirituality
Source: None
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Experience is the best of schoolmasters, only the school-fees are
heavy.
Topic: Students
Source: Miscellaneous Essays (I, 137), (ed. 1888)
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Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of
brotherhood makes all men one.
Topic: Sympathy
Source: Essays--Goethe's Works
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Great is the Tailor, but not the greatest.
Topic: Tailors
Source: Essays--Goethe's Works
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Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow
destruction.
Topic: Teaching
Source: "In Mathematical Circles" by H. Eves
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He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of
virtuous living.
Topic: Teaching
Source: Essays--Schiller
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Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all
others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker in the world?
Topic: Thought
Source: Heroes and Hero Worship (lecture I)
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Thought once awakened does not again slumber.
Topic: Thought
Source: Heroes and Hero Worship (lecture I)
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What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it.
Topic: Tradition
Source: None
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