Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Literature is the thought of thinking souls.
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Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
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Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.
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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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A frightful dialect for the stupid, the pedant and dullard sort.
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Thou fool! Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom; that idle crag thou sittest on is six thousand years of age.
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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.
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Professors of the Dismal Science, I perceive the length of your tether is now pretty well run; and I must request you to talk a little lower in the future.
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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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How were friendship possible? In mutual devotedness to the good and true; otherwise impossible, except as armed neutrality or hollow commercial league. A man, be the heavens ever praised, is sufficient for himself; yet were ten men, united in love, capable of being and of doing what ten thousand singly would fail in. Infinite is the help man can yield to man.
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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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Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident.
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All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.
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The age of miracles is forever here.
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The goal of yesterday will be our starting-point to-morrow.
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Every man has a coward and hero in his soul.
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For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness to deny that this superior morality is properly rather an inferior criminality, produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion.
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The situation that has not its duty, its ideal, was never yet occupied by man. Yes, here, in this poor, miserable, hampered, despicable actual, wherein thou even now standest, here or nowhere is thy ideal; work it out therefrom, and, working, believe, live, be free. Fool! the ideal is in thyself.
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Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.
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Alas! while the body stands so broad and brawny, must the soul lie blinded, dwarfed, stupefied, almost annihilated? Alas! this was, too, a breath of God, bestowed in heaven, but on earth never to be unfolded!
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Rare benevolence, the minister of God.