Will Thomas
Will Thomas
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NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
love contradiction pleasure
Love not pleasure; love God. This is the Everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved ...
mean men selfishness
No man at bottom means injustice; it is always for some obscure distorted image of a right that he contends: an obscure image diffracted, exaggerated, in the wonderfulest way by natural dimness and selfishness; getting tenfold more diffracted by exasperation of contest, till at length it become all but irrecognis-able.
heart feels
Feel it in thy heart and then say whether it is of God!
greatness men reality
Men worship the shows of great men; the most disbelieve that there is any reality of great men to worship.
god firsts sitting
Is there no God, then, but at best an absentee God, sitting idle, ever since the first Sabbath, at the outside of his Universe?
fall men doe
Our very walking is an incessant falling; a falling and a catching of ourselves before we come actually to the pavement. It is emblematic of all things a man does.
faith eye men
Pin thy faith to no man's sleeve. Hast thou not two eyes of thy own?
lying men break-through
What unknown seas of feeling lie in man, and will from time to time break through!
wise men half
God Almighty never created a man half as wise as he looks.
history products
What is all knowledge except recorded experience, and a product of history?
science men thinking
Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.
fashion silence together
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the delight of life, which they are thenceforth to rule.
birthday real men
It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.
god reality devil
I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.