Quotes from Sartor Resartus — Thomas Carlyle
1795–1881 Scotland
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Love not Pleasure; love God.
Sartor Resartus (1833)
Ever, as before, does Madness remain a mysterious-terrific, altogether infernal boiling-up of the Nether Chaotic Deep, through this fair-painted Vision of Creation, which swims thereon, which we name the Real.
Sartor Resartus (1833)
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 a whole new democratic world: he had invented the art of printing.
Sartor Resartus (1833)
Thou too art a Conqueror and Victor; but of the true sort, namely over the Devil: thou too hast built what will outlast all marble and metal, and be a wonder-bringing City of the Mind, a Temple and Seminary and Prophetic Mount, whereto all kindreds of the Earth will pilgrim.
Sartor Resartus (1833)
Be not the slave of Words.
Sartor Resartus (1833)