Thomas Carlyle Quotes About Language
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What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words.... Be not the slave of Words.
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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.
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Language is called the garment of thought: however, it should rather be, language is the flesh-garment, the body, of thought.
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The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor.
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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.
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