[I]f I have been delivered from darkness into any measure of light, if I know aught of myself and my duties and destination, it is to the study of your writings more than to any other circumstance that I owe this; it is you more than any other man that I should always thank and reverence with the feeling of a Disciple to his Master, nay of a Son to his Spiritual Father.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "[I]f I have been delivered from darkness into any measure of light, if I know aught of myself and my duties and destination, it is to the study of your writings more than to any other circumstance that I owe this; it is you more than any other man that I should always thank and reverence with the feeling of a Disciple to his Master, nay of a Son to his Spiritual Father." in the context of "Thomas Carlyle to Goethe (15 April 1827), quoted in Correspondence between Goethe and Carlyle, ed. Charles Eliot Norton (1887), p. 7" to mean that wisdom is timeless.