“Love is ever the beginning of Knowledge as fire is of light.”

— Thomas Carlyle, Essays, "Death of Goethe"

About Thomas Carlyle

1795 – 1881

Scottish historian and essayist, author of "Sartor Resartus".

“Change, indeed, is painful; yet ever needful; and if Memory have its force and worth, so also has Hope.”

“No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.”

“The true University of these days is a collection of Books.”

“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does.”

“Your first love has no beginning or end.”

“All great truths begin as blasphemies.”

“I only know we loved in vain; I only feel—farewell! farewell!”

“The first and last thing demanded of genius is love of truth.”

“I know now that Jesus is right, that love is the way.”