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A Sad Spectacle. If They Be Inhabited, What A Scope For Misery And Folly.
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A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly.
If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.
-- Thomas Carlyle, looking at the stars
Related:
Felicity: A town inhabited by happy cats...
What is aristocracy? A corporation of the best, of the bravest. -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
What is philosophy but a continual battle against custom? -- Thomas Carlyle
I demonstrate by means of philosophy that the earth is round, and is inhabited on all side
hat it is insignificantly small, and is borne through the stars....
Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
-- Thomas Carlyle...
The eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing.
These islands are inhabited by Canabilli, a wild, unconquered race which feeds on human flesh.
I would be right to call them anthropophagi [man-eaters]....
What a *senseless* waste of human life.
If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him.
They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it....