Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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With union grounded on falsehood and ordering us to speak and act lies, we will not have anything to do. Peace? A brutal lethargy is peaceable; the noisome is peaceable. We hope for a living peace, not a dead one!
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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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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No mortal has a right to wag his tongue, much less to wag his pen, without saying something.
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Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.
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The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.
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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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Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
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The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
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Trust not the heart of that man for whom old clothes are not venerable.
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A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.
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Unity, agreement, is always silent or soft-voiced; it is only discord that loudly proclaims itself.
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No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
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Caution is the lower story of prudence.
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History: A distillation of rumor.
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We observe with confidence that the truly strong mind, view it as intellect or morality, or under any other aspect, is nowise the mind acquainted with its strength; that here the sign of health is unconsciousness.
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Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.
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A poor creature who has said or done nothing worth a serious man taking the trouble of remembering.
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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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I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident.
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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.