Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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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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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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Beautiful it is, and a gleam from the same eternal pole-star visible amid the destinies of men, that all talent, all intellect, is in the first plane moral. What a world were this otherwise!
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All true work is sacred. In all true work, were it but true hand work, there is something of divineness. Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in Heaven.
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With stupidity and sound digestion, man may front much.
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There are female dandies as well as clothes-wearing men; and the former are as objectionable as the latter.
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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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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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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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Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
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Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.
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Violence does even justice unjustly.
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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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What unknown seas of feeling lie in man, and will from time to time break through!
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To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.
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Nothing ever happens but once in all this world. What I do now I do once for all. It is over and gone, with all its eternity of solemn meaning.
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The public is anold woman.Let her maunderand mumble.
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Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.
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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
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For every one hundred men who can stand adversity there is only one who can withstand prosperity.
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A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.
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I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.
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The most unhappy of all men is the man who cannot tell what he is going to do, who has got no work cut-out for him in the world, and does not go into it. For work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind,honest work, which you intend getting done.