“Wonder, indeed, is, on all hands, dying out: it is the sign of uncultivation to wonder.”
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
1820s, Signs of the Times (1829)
Source: As You Like It
“Wonder, indeed, is, on all hands, dying out: it is the sign of uncultivation to wonder.”
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
1820s, Signs of the Times (1829)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher
Aids to Reflection (1873), Aphorism 107
Marcion of Sinope (85–160) Christian theologian
Possibly the opening lines of Marcion's Antithesis. Quoted in Marcion and Luke-Acts: A Defining Struggle (2006) by Joseph B. Tyson, p. 31.
“Think and wonder, wonder and think.”
Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books
“It's a wonderful, wonderful opera, except that it hurts.”
Joseph Campbell The Power of Myth
Episode 2, Chapter 15
The Power of Myth (1988)
“From wonder into wonder existence opens.”
Laozi (-604) semi-legendary Chinese figure, attributed to the 6th century, regarded as the author of the Tao Te Ching and fou…