Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Silence, the great Empire of Silence: higher than all stars; deeper than the Kingdom of Death! It alone is great; all else is small.
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The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.
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Nakedness, hunger, distress of all kinds, death itself have been cheerfully suffered, when the heart was right. It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.
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It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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God Almighty never created a man half as wise as he looks.
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A noble book! all men's book!
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Properly speaking, all true work is religion.
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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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In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.
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Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet.
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Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker in the world?
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A thinking man is the worst enemy the Prince of Darkness can have; every time such an one announces himself, I doubt not there runs a shudder through the nether empire; and new emissaries are trained with new tactics, to, if possible, entrap and hoodwink and handcuff him.
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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.
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The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession; like the honor of a soldier, dearer to him than life.
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Philosophy dwells aloft in the Temple of Science, the divinity of its inmost shrine; her dictates descend among men, but she herself descends not : whoso would behold her must climb with long and laborious effort, nay, still linger in the forecourt, till manifold trial have proved him worthy of admission into the interior solemnities.
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Clean undeniable right, clear undeniable might: either of these once ascertained puts an end to battle. All battle is a confused experiment to ascertain one and both of these.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
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The greatest of all heroes is One--whom we do not name here! Let sacred silence meditate that sacred matter; you will find it the ultimate perfection of a principle extant throughout man's whole history on earth.
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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
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The devil has his elect.
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It is meritorious to insist on forms; religion and all else naturally clothes itself in forms. Everywhere the formed world is the only habitable one.