Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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History: A distillation of rumor.
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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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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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Laughter means sympathy.
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No person is important enough to make me angry.
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Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them.
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The archenemy is the arch stupid!
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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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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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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And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable.
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What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it
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There are remedies for all things but death.
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The actual well seen is ideal.
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Not only was Thebes built by the music of an Orpheus; but without the music of some inspired Orpheus was no city ever built, no work that man glories in ever done.
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Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.
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All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him; if he front it not bravely, it will keep its word.
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I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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Well might the ancients make silence a god; for it is the element of all godhood, infinitude, or transcendental greatness,--at once the source and the ocean wherein all such begins and ends.
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man!
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To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic's can but babble on the surface.
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The greatest security against sin is to be shocked at its presence.
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Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to.