Authors:
Quotes › Authors › T › Thomas Carlyle › What an enormous magnifier is tradition...

  • 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

    Thomas Carlyle
    Favorite
    Thomas Carlyle (1841). “On Heroes, Hero-Worship,&the Heroic in History. Six Lectures. Reported with emendations and additions”, p.41
    Tradition Quotes

Topics

create your own picture
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 - Thomas Carlyle
Embed:
Cite this Page: Citation

Popular Topics

Related Authors