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Art Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
- Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
- If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.
- To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic's can but babble on the surface.
- What, in the devil's name, is the use of respectability, with never so many gigs and silver spoons, if thou inwardly art the pitifulness of…
- No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work…
- What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed He then that ever speaks through thee,…
- Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.
- No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes towards it. There they…
- The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die.
- Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.
- 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…
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