Quotes by Thomas de Quincey

Thomas de Quincey

A great scholar, in the highest sense of the term, is not one who depends simply on an infinite memory, but also on an infinite and electrical power of combination; bringing together from the four winds, like the Angel of the Resurrection, what else were dust from dead men’s bones, into the unity of breathing life.

Angel

Memories

Men

All is finite in the present; and even that finite is infinite in it velocity of flight towards death. But in God there is nothing finite…Upon a night of earthquake he builds a thousand years of pleasant habitations for man. Upon the sorrow of an infant he raises oftentimes from human intellects glorious vintages that could not else have been.

Men

Night

Years

All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

Men

Solitude

World

All that is literature seeks to communicate power

Communicate

Literature

Dyspepsy is the ruin of most things: empires, expeditions, and everything else.

Empires

Expeditions

Ruins

Either the human being must suffer and struggle as the price of a more searching vision, or his gaze must be shallow and without intellectual revelation.

Intellectual

Struggle

Suffering

Even imperfection itself may have its ideal or perfect state.

May

Perfect

States

Fierce sectarianism breeds fierce latitudinarianism.

Fierce

Sectarianism

Flowers… that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of years been the heritage of children – honored as the jewelry of God only by them – when suddenly the voice of Christianity, counter-signing the voice of infancy, raised them to a grandeur transcending the Hebrew throne, although founded by God himself, and pronounced Solomon in all his glory not to be arrayed like one of these.

Children

Clouds

Flower

For tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities, or are become so from wine-drinking, and are not susceptible of influence from so refined a stimulant, will always be the favourite beverage of the intellectual.

Beverages

Intellectual

Tea

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Angel

Art

Beer

Beverages

Book

Carriages

Chaos

Children

Choices

Clouds

Communicate

Dear

Dear Friend

Development

Disappear

Discipline

Doe

Drinking

Dust

Empires

Exercise

Expeditions

Expression

Facts

Feelings

Feels

Feet

Fierce

Fitness

Flower

Forget

Germany

Girl

Grief

Hate

Ideas

Ineffable

Intellectual

Irritation

Kings

Laughing

Laughter

Literature

Long

Luxury

Mathematics

May

Medicine

Memories

Men

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Quotes by Thomas de Quincey

Thomas de Quincey

All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

All that is literature seeks to communicate power

Dyspepsy is the ruin of most things: empires, expeditions, and everything else.

Either the human being must suffer and struggle as the price of a more searching vision, or his gaze must be shallow and without intellectual revelation.

Even imperfection itself may have its ideal or perfect state.

Fierce sectarianism breeds fierce latitudinarianism.

For tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities, or are become so from wine-drinking, and are not susceptible of influence from so refined a stimulant, will always be the favourite beverage of the intellectual.

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