Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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A frightful dialect for the stupid, the pedant and dullard sort.
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We are to take no counsel with flesh and blood; give ear to no vain cavils, vain sorrows and wishes; to know that we know nothing, that the worst and cruelest to our eyes is not what it seems, that we have to receive whatsoever befalls us as sent from God above, and say, "It is good and wise,--God is great! Though He slay me, yet I trust in Him." Islam means, in its way, denial of self. This is yet the highest wisdom that heaven has revealed to our earth.
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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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O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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It's a man's sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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A greater number of God's creatures believe in Mahomet's word at this hour than in any other word whatever. Are we to suppose that it was a miserable piece of spiritual legerdemain, this which so many creatures of the almighty have lived by and died by?
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If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin.
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A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.
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Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest course.
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We arc the miracle of miracles, the great inscrutable mystery of God.
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In no time whatever can small critics entirely eradicate out of living men's hearts a certain altogether peculiar collar reverence for Great Men--genuine admiration, loyalty, adora-tion.
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The greatest security against sin is to be shocked at its presence.
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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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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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Creation is great, and cannot be understood.
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The actual well seen is ideal.
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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness.
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Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines of two everlasting empires, - Necessity and Free Will.
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I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.
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On the whole, I would bid you stand up to your work, whatever it may be, and not be afraid of it; not in sorrows or contradictions to yield, but to push on towards the goal.
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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.