#er

The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#make #men #real #tall #use

The true university of these days is a collection of books. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#collection #days #these #true #university

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#imagination #matter #part #poor #understanding

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#alone #doubt #ended #kind #whatever

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation? ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#does #eloquent #fact #good #horrid

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#emphatically #his #hope #man #other

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#believe #chain #compel #disbelieve #ever

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#given #great #great men #his #littleness

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#forever #innermost #outer #passes #same

Wonder is the basis of worship. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#basis #wonder #worship