Thomas Carlyle Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Glowing, Language, Metaphor

  Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.79

• Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Long

  Thomas Carlyle (1834). “Fraser's Magazine”, p.195

• What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words.... Be not the slave of Words.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Language, Slave, Aphorism

  Thomas Carlyle (1831). “Sartor Resartus: The life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in three books: By Thomas Carlyle”, p.36

• Language is called the garment of thought: however, it should rather be, language is the flesh-garment, the body, of thought.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Body, Flesh, Language

  'Sartor Resartus' (1834) bk. 1, ch. 11

• All that a university or final highest school. can do for us is still but what the first school began doing--teach us to read. We learn to read in various languages, in various sciences; we learn the alphabet and letters of all manner of books. But the place where we are to get knowledge, even theoretic knowledge, is the books themselves. It depends on what we read, after all manner of professors have done their best for us. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Education, Book, School

  Thomas Carlyle (1852). “On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History: Six Lectures, Reported, with Emendations and Additions”, p.255

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