Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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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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Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.
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Blessed be the God's voice; for it is true, and falsehoods have to cease before it!
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He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.
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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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Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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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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O Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry each a future Ghost within him; but are, in very deed, Ghosts!
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Macaulay is well for awhile, but one wouldn't live under Niagara.
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Necessity dispenseth with decorum.
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I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country.
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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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God Almighty never created a man half as wise as he looks.
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There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
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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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And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable.
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The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him.
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What is philosophy but a continual battle against custom?
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Statistics, one may hope, will improve gradually, and become good for something. Meanwhile, it is to be feared the crabbed satirist was partly right, as things go: "A judicious man," says he, "looks at Statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted on him."
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The Bible is the truest utterance that ever came by alphabetic letters from the soul of man, through which, as through a window divinely opened, all men can look into the stillness of eternity, and discern in glimpses their far-distant, long-forgotten home.
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The English are a dumb people. They can do great acts, but not describe them.
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Give us, O give us the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation what it may, he is equal to any of those who follow the same pursuit in silent sullenness. He will do more in the same time . . . he will do it better . . . he will persevere longer. One is scarcely sensible to fatigue while he marches to music. The very stars are said to make harmony as they revolve in their spheres.
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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.