Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man.
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A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.
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Manhood begins when we have in any way made truce with Necessity; begins even when we have surrendered to Necessity, as the most part only do; but begins joyfully and hopefully only when we have reconciled ourselves to Necessity; and thus, in reality, triumphed over it, and felt that in Necessity we are free.
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The great soul of this world is just.
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Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together by the tie of sympathy.
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There is no permanent place in this universe for evil... Evil may hide behind this fallacy and that, but it will be hunted from fallacy to fallacy until there is no more fallacy for it to hide behind.
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The purpose of man is in action not thought.
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Courtesy is the due of man to man; not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes.
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There is a majesty and mystery in nature, take her as you will. The essence of poetry comes breathing to a mind that feels from every province of her empire.
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I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.
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Man, it is not thy works, which are mortal, infinitely little, and the greatest no greater than the least, but only the spirit thou workest in, that can have worth or continuance.
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The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it.
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Leaders: Captains of industry.
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Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance.
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The greatest security against sin is to be shocked at its presence.
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No man is born without ambitious worldly desires.
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Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of a man; like light, it can give little or nothing, but at most may show what is given.
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Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.
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We arc the miracle of miracles, the great inscrutable mystery of God.
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All great peoples are conservative.
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With union grounded on falsehood and ordering us to speak and act lies, we will not have anything to do. Peace? A brutal lethargy is peaceable; the noisome is peaceable. We hope for a living peace, not a dead one!
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The universe is but one vast Symbol of God.
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Misery which, through long ages, had no spokesman, no helper, will now be its own helper and speak for itself.
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Our works are the mirror wherein the spirit first sees its natural lineaments. Hence, too, the folly of that impossible precept, Know theyself; till it be translated into this partially possible one, know what thou canst work at.