https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 17 Apr 2026 22:39:47 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/carlyle-thomas/79293/ https://wist.info/carlyle-thomas/79293/#respond Thu, 25 Sep 2025 18:42:27 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=79293 Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally among mankind.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Sartor Resartus, Book 3, ch. 7 (1834)
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Quoting Herr Teufelsdröckh.

This passage first appeared in Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, Vol. 10, No. 55 (1834-07). ]]> https://wist.info/carlyle-thomas/79293/feed/ 0 79293 https://wist.info/addison-joseph/76964/ https://wist.info/addison-joseph/76964/#respond Mon, 16 Jun 2025 18:05:15 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=76964 The truth of it is, there is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1711-05-24), The Spectator, No. 73
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The essay in focuses in particular on women who are idolized by coteries of men around them. ]]> https://wist.info/addison-joseph/76964/feed/ 0 76964 https://wist.info/einstein-albert/21071/ https://wist.info/einstein-albert/21071/#respond Tue, 07 May 2013 13:44:40 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=21071 My political view is democracy. Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-American physicist
“What I Believe,” Forum and Century (Oct 1930)
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Variant: "My political ideal is that of democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized." "The World As I See It [Mein Weltbild]" [tr. Harris (1934)]. ]]> https://wist.info/einstein-albert/21071/feed/ 0 21071