Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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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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A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.
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Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film.
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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.
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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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We are to remember what an umpire Nature is; what a greatness, composure of depth and tolerance there is in her. You take wheat to cast into the Earth's bosom; your wheat may be mixed with chaff, chopped straw, barn-sweepings, dust and all imaginable rubbish; no matter: you cast it into the kind just Earth; she grows the wheat, - the whole rubbish she silently absorbs, shrouds it in, says nothing of the rubbish.
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Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path .. A thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do .. To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.
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The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die.
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The latest gospel in this world is, know thy work and do it.
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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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Is not cant the materia prima of the devil, from which all falsehoods, imbecilities, abominations, body themselves, from which no true thing can come? For cant is itself the properly a double-distilled lie, the second power of a lie.
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There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
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One seems to believe almost all that they believe; and when they stop short and call it a Religion, and you pass on, and call it only a reminiscence of one, should you not part with the kiss of peace?
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Pain was not given thee merely to be miserable under; learn from it, turn it to account.
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The archenemy is the arch stupid!
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Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed this His universe to go.
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The choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule; the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and baseness, in most of the affairs of men. Slopshirts attainable three-halfpence cheaper by the ruin of living bodies and immortal souls.
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Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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Debt is a bottomless sea.
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The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.
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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.