Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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We arc the miracle of miracles, the great inscrutable mystery of God.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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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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Of all God's creatures, Man alone is poor.
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If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
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What are your historical Facts still more your biographical Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts.
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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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Force, force, everywhere force; we ourselves a mysterious force in the centre of that. "There is not a leaf rotting on the highway but has Force in it: how else could it rot?" As used in his time, by the word force, Carlyle means energy.
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It's a man's sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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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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The greatest of all heroes is One--whom we do not name here! Let sacred silence meditate that sacred matter; you will find it the ultimate perfection of a principle extant throughout man's whole history on earth.
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The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once.
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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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A frightful dialect for the stupid, the pedant and dullard sort.
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Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet.
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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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We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness.
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Ever, as before, does Madness remain a mysterious-terrific, altogether infernal boiling-up of the Nether Chaotic Deep, through this fair-painted Vision of Creation, which swims thereon, which we name the Real.
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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.
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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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A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.
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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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For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.
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Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.