Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
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In no time whatever can small critics entirely eradicate out of living men's hearts a certain altogether peculiar collar reverence for Great Men--genuine admiration, loyalty, adora-tion.
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God Almighty never created a man half as wise as he looks.
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The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke; there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire.
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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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Consider in fact, a body of six hundred and fifty-eight miscellaneous persons, set to consult about "business," with twenty-seven millions, mostly fools, assiduously listening to them, and checking and criticising them. Was there ever, since the world began, will there ever be till the world end, any "business" accomplished in these circumstances?
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No person is important enough to make me angry.
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O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create, know this for a truth: the thing thou seekest is already here, "here or nowhere," couldst thou only see.
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Literature is the thought of thinking souls.
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Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading.
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The true Church of England, at this moment, lies in the Editors of the newspapers.
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If a man was great while living, he becomes tenfold greater when dead.
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A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
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Let Time and Chance combine, combine! Let Time and Chance combine! The fairest love from heaven above, That love of yours was mine, My Dear! That love of yours was mine.
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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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On the whole, I would bid you stand up to your work, whatever it may be, and not be afraid of it; not in sorrows or contradictions to yield, but to push on towards the goal.
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The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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A greater number of God's creatures believe in Mahomet's word at this hour than in any other word whatever. Are we to suppose that it was a miserable piece of spiritual legerdemain, this which so many creatures of the almighty have lived by and died by?
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What is philosophy but a continual battle against custom?
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The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
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Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man.
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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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The goal of yesterday will be our starting-point to-morrow.
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Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.