Thomas Carlyle Quotes About Worship
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Hero-worship is the deepest root of all; the tap-root, from which in a great degree all the rest were nourished and grown . . . Worship of a Hero is transcendent admiration of a Great Man. I say great men are still admirable; I say there is, at bottom, nothing else admirable! No nobler feeling than this of admiration for one higher than himself dwells in the breast of men.
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Wonder is the basis of worship.
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Worship is transcendent wonder.
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Man always worships something; always he sees the Infinite shadowed forth in something finite; and indeed can and must so see it in any finite thing, once tempt him well to fix his eyes thereon.
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Men worship the shows of great men; the most disbelieve that there is any reality of great men to worship.
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What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it
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Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind.
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Heroes, it would seem, exist always and a certain worship of them.
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Does not every true man feel that he is himself made higher by doing reverence to what is really above him?
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The infinite, absolute character of Virtue has passed into a finite, conditional one; it is no longer a worship of the Beautiful and Good; but a calculation of the Profitable.
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Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.
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Society is founded on hero-worship.
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