Thomas Carlyle ( 10 of 167 )
Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546 It must have been a most blessed discovery, that of an old read more
Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546 It must have been a most blessed discovery, that of an old Latin Bible which he found in the Erfurt Library about this time. He had never seen the Book before. It taught him another lesson than that of fasts and vigils... Luther learned now that a man was saved not by singing masses, but by the infinite grace of God: a more credible hypothesis. He gradually got himself founded, as on the rock. No wonder he should venerate the Bible, which had brought this blessed help to him. He prized it as the Word of the Highest must be prized by such a man. He determined to hold by that, as through life and to death he firmly did.
History: A distillation of rumor.
History: A distillation of rumor.
Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in
it what the eye brings means of seeing.
In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in
it what the eye brings means of seeing.
History is the essence of innumerable Biographies.
History is the essence of innumerable Biographies.
Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness; it is
because there is an Infinite in him, which read more
Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness; it is
because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning
he cannot quite bury under the Finite.
To-day is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our Works
and Thoughts, if they are always to be read more
To-day is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our Works
and Thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue
always the same? Change, indeed, is painful; yet ever needful;
and if Memory have its force and worth, so also has Hope.
Day of wrath that day of burning,
Seer and Sibyl speak concerning,
All the world to ashes read more
Day of wrath that day of burning,
Seer and Sibyl speak concerning,
All the world to ashes turning.
[Lat., Dies irae, dies illa!
Solvet saeclum in favilla,
Teste David cum Sybilla.]
Speak not at all, in any wise, till you have somewhat to speak;
care not for the reward of read more
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.
Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and
deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve read more
Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and
deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve
rebelling against.
