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Call Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
- We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under…
- Social Science, is not a 'gay science' but rueful, which finds the secret of this universe in 'supply and demand' and reduces the duty of…
- Have not I myself known five hundred living soldiers sabred into crows' meat for a piece of glazed cotton, which they call their flag; which…
- We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud "electricity," and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of glass and silk:…
- The steam-engine I call fire-demon and great; but it is nothing to the invention of fire.
- I call the book of Job, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with the pen.
- A fundamental mistake to call vehemence and rigidity strength! A man is not strong who takes convulsion-fits; though six men cannot hold him then. He…
- In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by silence and by speech acting together, comes a double significance. In the symbol…
- That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
- Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought.
- Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call…
- What we might call, by way of eminence, the Dismal Science
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