Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
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O Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry each a future Ghost within him; but are, in very deed, Ghosts!
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Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.
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The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once.
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When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
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Professors of the Dismal Science, I perceive the length of your tether is now pretty well run; and I must request you to talk a little lower in the future.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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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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Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History Books!
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The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk.
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Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.
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Alas! we know that ideals can never be completely embodied in practice. Ideals must ever lie a great way off--and we will thankfully content ourselves with any not intolerable approximation thereto! Let no man, as Schiller says, too querulously "measure by a scale of perfection the meager product of reality" in this poor world of ours.
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Lies exist only to be extinguished.
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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 philosopher is he to whom the highest has descended, and the lowest has mounted up; who is the equal and kindly brother of all.
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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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.
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The Highest Being reveals himself in man.
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.
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Great men are the inspired texts of that divine Book of Revelations, whereof a chapter is completed from epoch to epoch, and by some named History.
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Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.
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If I say that Shakespeare is the greatest of intellects, I have said all concerning him. But there is more in Shakespeare's intellect than we have yet seen. It is what I call an unconscious intellect; there is more virtue in it that he himself is aware of.