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LAW & HISTORY > essayist, historian > Thomas Carlyle
Scepticism, as I...
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Scepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things. A sad case for him when all that he can manage to bel
Source: On Heroes and Hero-Worship, Lecture 5, The Hero as a Man of Letters (1841).
-- Thomas Carlyle, (Dec 4 1795-1881), Scottish essayist, historian; He was considered one of the era's great sages and man of letters; wrote The French Revolution, 1837.