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“The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself.”

Book:Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books

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Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books

Sartor Resartus is a philosophical novel that delves into complex ideas of individuality and identity. The narrative follows Herr Teufelsdröckh, a character who undergoes a transformative journey. The book is divided into three books, each contributing to the exploration of themes such as the nature of reality, the role of the artist, and the search for meaning in life. more

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Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle, born on December 4, 1795, and died on February 5, 1881, was a prominent Scottish philosopher, historian, and writer. His works are known for their profound social criticism and unique literary style, which had a significant impact on 19th-century British literature and thought. more

“Now, since everything else is furnished with the exact amount of needle and thread required to maintain its being, it is in truth incredible that we alone should be brought into the world in a defective and indigent state, in a state such that we cannot maintain ourselves without external aid.”

World Should States Amount Incredibles Aids Clothings Thread Needles Defective Needle And Thread

Book:Complete Essays

Source: Complete Essays

“Our skin is provided as adequately as theirs with endurance against the assaults of the weather: witness so many nations who have not yet tried the use of any clothes. Our ancient Gauls wore hardly any clothes; nor do the Irish, our neighbors, under so cold a sky.”

Use Nations Sky Cold Clothes Skins Ancient Neighbor Weather Witness Endurance Clothings Assault

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“For all parts of the body that we see fit to expose to the wind and air are found fit to endure it: face, feet, hands, legs, shoulders, head, according as custom invites us. For if there is a part of us that is tender and that seems as though it should fear the cold, it should be the stomach, where digestion takes place; our fathers left it uncovered, and our ladies, soft and delicate as they are, sometimes go half bare down to the navel.”

Source: Complete Essays

“Man is the sole animal whose nudities offend his own companions, and the only one who, in his natural actions, withdraws and hides himself from his own kind.”

Men Kind Action Natural Animal Companion Clothings Sole Nudity

Book:The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy. With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices &c., &c

Source: The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy. With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices &c., &c

“Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity - these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them. They hide nothing. They are not ashamed.”

Men Animal Higher Ashamed Clothings Confined Vulgarity Obscenity

Book:Mark Twain’s Book of Animals

Source: Mark Twain’s Book of Animals

“I suppose we acquire most of our feelings about our bodies too early, and in ways too complicated, to make them easy to account for.”

Way Feelings Body Easy Accounts Complicated Acquire Clothings

Book:Edward Weston: nudes : his photographs accompanied by excerpts from the daybooks & letters

Source: Edward Weston: nudes : his photographs accompanied by excerpts from the daybooks & letters

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