Quotes by Carlyle, Thomas

We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest sepa >>

But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuati >>

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything grea >>

Quotations about Symbols

The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in ima >>

In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, b >>

Every sign is subject to the criteria of ideological evaluation. The d >>

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 proper, what we can call a symbol, there is ever, more or less distinctly and directly, some embodiment and revelation of the Infinite; the Infinite is made to blend itself with the Finite, to stand visible, and as it were, attainable there. By symbols, accordingly, is man guided and commanded, made happy, made wretched.

Carlyle, Thomas