The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
Thomas CarlyleRead
The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the significance of nature over man-made structures.
This quote by Thomas Carlyle contrasts the grandeur of old cathedrals, which symbolize human achievement and artistry, with the vastness and beauty of the sky represented by the 'great blue dome'. It suggests that while human creations are impressive, the natural world surpasses them in majesty and wonder, encouraging a perspective that values the environment around us.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of environmental conservation.
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
Thirty millions, mostly fools.
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness to deny that this superior morality is properly rather an inferior criminality, produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion.
Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
Clean undeniable right, clear undeniable might: either of these once ascertained puts an end to battle. All battle is a confused experiment to ascertain one and both of these.
Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few... No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.
It became clear over time that white people have extremely low thresholds for enduring any discomfort associated with challenges to our racial worldviews.
People are hard to govern. The rulers interfere with too much. That is why people are hard to govern.
What I do know is that disabled people shouldn't be responsible for curing non-disabled people of their ignorance.
It is a curve each of them feels, unmistakably. It is the parabola. They must have guessed, once or twice - guessed and refused to believe - that everything, always, collectively, had been moving toward that purified shape latent in the sky, that shape of no surprise, no second chance, no return. Yet they do move forever under it, reserved for its own black-and-white bad news certainly as if it were the rainbow, and they its children...
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