Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Unity, agreement, is always silent or soft-voiced; it is only discord that loudly proclaims itself.
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There are depths in man that go to the lowest hell, and heights that reach the highest heaven, for are not both heaven and hell made out of him, everlasting miracle and mystery that he is.
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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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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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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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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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That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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The English are a dumb people. They can do great acts, but not describe them.
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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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Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking?
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The Persians are called the French of the East; we will call the Arabs Oriental Italians. A gifted noble people; a people of wildstrong feelings, and of iron restraint over these: the characteristic of noblemindedness, of genius.
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If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
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Whose school-hours are all the days and nights of our existence.
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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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The archenemy is the arch stupid!
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Generations are as the days of toilsome mankind; death and birth are the vesper and the matin bells that summon mankind to sleep and to rise refreshed for new advancement. What the father has made, the son can make and enjoy; but has also work of his own appointed him. Thus all things wax and roll onwards: arts, establishments, opinions, nothing is ever completed, but ever completing.
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Money, in truth, can do much, but it cannot do all. We must know the province of it, and confine it there, and even spurn it back when it wishes to get farther.
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Show me the man you honor; I know by that symptom, better than by any other, what kind of man you yourself are. For you show me there what your ideal of manhood is; what kind of man you long inexpressibly to be.
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The most unhappy of all men is the man who cannot tell what he is going to do, who has got no work cut-out for him in the world, and does not go into it. For work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind,honest work, which you intend getting done.
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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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No person is important enough to make me angry.
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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.
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I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.