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If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him.
They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun
of it.

-- Thomas Carlyle


The public is an old woman. Let her maunder and mumble.
-- Thomas Carlyle


Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.
-- Thomas Carlyle


A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly.
If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.
-- Thomas Carlyle, looking at the stars


The public is an old woman. Let her maunder and mumble.
-- Thomas Carlyle


A man lives by believing in something, not by debating and arguing about many
things.

-- Thomas Carlyle


Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.
-- Thomas Carlyle


It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works
and has his being.
-- Thomas Carlyle


The crash of the whole solar and stellar
systems could only kill you once.

-- Thomas Carlyle


If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even
crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he
had to say, and make fun of it.

-- Thomas Carlyle


A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly.
If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.
-- Thomas Carlyle, looking at the stars


It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works
and has his being.
-- Thomas Carlyle