Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.
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Macaulay is well for awhile, but one wouldn't live under Niagara.
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The true Church of England, at this moment, lies in the Editors of the newspapers.
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And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable.
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Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
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Necessity dispenseth with decorum.
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The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
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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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It is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.
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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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It's a man's sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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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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If a man was great while living, he becomes tenfold greater when dead.
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The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
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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 the light of your mind, which is the direct inspiration of the Almighty, pronounces incredible, that, in God's name, leave uncredited. At your peril do not try believing that!
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Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident.
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To me the Universe was all void of Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hostility; it was one huge, dead, immeasurable Steam-engine, rolling on, in its dead indifference, to grind me limb from limb. Oh vast gloomy, solitary Golgotha, and Mill of Death! Why was the living banished thither companionless, conscious? Why, if there is no Devil; nay, unless the Devil is your God?
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All comes out even at the end of the day.
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Great men are the inspired texts of that divine Book of Revelations, whereof a chapter is completed from epoch to epoch, and by some named History.
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There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
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The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.
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What is philosophy but a continual battle against custom?
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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.