Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Lies exist only to be extinguished.
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Time has only a relative existence.
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The great soul of this world is just.
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Democracy will itself accomplish the salutary universal change from delusive to real, and make a new blessed world of us by and by.
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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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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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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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Nature, after all, is still the grand agent in making poets.
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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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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.
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In idleness there is a perpetual despair.
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For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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I never heard tell of any clever man that came of entirely stupid people.
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Poverty, we may say, surrounds a man with ready-made barriers, which if they do mournfully gall and hamper, do at least prescribe for him, and force on him, a sort of course and goal; a safe and beaten, though a circuitous, course. A great part of his guidance is secure against fatal error, is withdrawn from his control. The rich, again, has his whole life to guide, without goal or barrier, save of his own choosing, and, tempted, is too likely to guide it ill.
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My books are friends that never fail me.
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The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
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I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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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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Roguery is thought by some to be cunning and laughable: it is neither; it is devilish.
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He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of virtuous living.
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Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
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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.