Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Fancy that thou deservest to be hangedthou wilt feel it happiness to be only shot: fancy that thou deservest to be hanged ina hair halter, it will be a luxury to die in hemp.
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For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.
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Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.
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Leaders: Captains of industry.
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"Love is not altogether a Delirium," says he elsewhere; "yet has it many points in common therewith."
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Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.
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All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale.
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The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once.
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Why multiply instances? It is written, the Heavens and the Earth shall fade away like a Vesture; which indeed they are: the Time-vesture of the Eternal. Whatsoever sensibly exists, whatsoever represents Spirit to Spirit, is properly a Clothing, a suit of Raiment, put on for a season, and to be laid off. Thus in this one pregnant subject of CLOTHES, rightly understood, is included all that men have thought, dreamed, done, and been: the whole External Universe and what it holds is but Clothing; and the essence of all Science lies in the PHILOSOPHY OF CLOTHES.
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Variety is the condition of harmony.
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Society is founded on hero-worship.
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We arc the miracle of miracles, the great inscrutable mystery of God.
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Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History Books!
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The all importance of clothes has sprung up in the intellect of the dandy without effort, like an instinct of genius; he is inspired with clothes, a poet of clothes.
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That great mystery of TIME, were there no other; the illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean tide, on which we and all the Universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not: this is forever very literally a miracle; a thing to strike us dumb,-for we have no word to speak about it.
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Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world's judgment.
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The Persians are called the French of the East; we will call the Arabs Oriental Italians. A gifted noble people; a people of wildstrong feelings, and of iron restraint over these: the characteristic of noblemindedness, of genius.
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Is not every meanest day the confluence of two eternities?
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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Laissez-faire, supply and demand-one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egotism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause-it is the gospel of despair.
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Man is, and was always, a block-head and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and consider.
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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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Silence, the great Empire of Silence: higher than all stars; deeper than the Kingdom of Death! It alone is great; all else is small.
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The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself.