WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Tue, 18 Aug 2026 22:23:18 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg fine arts – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Carlyle, Thomas -- Essay (1850-08-01), “Jesuitism,” Latter-Day Pamphlets, No. 8 https://wist.info/carlyle-thomas/729/ https://wist.info/carlyle-thomas/729/#respond Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/wp/?p=729 The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die, and get flown away with by the Devil, which latter is only the second-worst result for us. Truth, fact, is the life of all things; falsity, “fiction” or whatever it may call itself, is certain to be death, and is already insanity, to whatever thing takes up with it.


Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Essay (1850-08-01), “Jesuitism,” Latter-Day Pamphlets, No. 8
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