“’What are your historical Facts; still more your biographical? Wilt thou know a Man, above all a Mankind, by stringing together bead-rolls of what thou namest Fact? The Man is the spirit he worked in; not what he did, but what he became. Facts are engraved Hierograms, for which the fewest have the key. And then how your Blockhead (Dummkopf) studies not their Meaning; but simply whether they are well or ill cut, what he calls Moral or Immoral!”
"I seldom read except to amuse myself, and I am almost always reading." -- Coleridge
Monday, June 14, 2010
Carlyle - "O Homem é o espírito em que trabalhou; não o que fez, mas o que se tornou".
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment