Thomas Carlyle Quote

Well might the ancients make silence a god; for it is the element of all godhood, infinitude, or transcendental greatness,--at once the source and the ocean wherein all such begins and ends.


John Stuart Mill: Autobiography, Essay on Liberty (ed. 1909)


Well might the ancients make silence a god; for it is the element of all godhood, infinitude, or transcendental greatness,--at once the source and...

Well might the ancients make silence a god; for it is the element of all godhood, infinitude, or transcendental greatness,--at once the source and...

Well might the ancients make silence a god; for it is the element of all godhood, infinitude, or transcendental greatness,--at once the source and...

Well might the ancients make silence a god; for it is the element of all godhood, infinitude, or transcendental greatness,--at once the source and...