Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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The Great Man's sincerity is of the kind he cannot speak of, is not conscious of: nay, I suppose, he is conscious rather of insincerity; for what man can walk accurately by the law of truth for one day? No, the Great Man does not boast himself sincere, far from that; perhaps does not ask himself if he is so: I would say rather, his sincerity does not depend on himself; he cannot help being sincere!
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Properly speaking, all true work is religion.
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Prayer is and remains always a native and deepest impulse of the soul of man.
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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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Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
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All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble.
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Every man is my superior in that I may learn from him.
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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 dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.
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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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Thought will not work except in silence.
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Heroes, it would seem, exist always and a certain worship of them.
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Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
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Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.
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No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.
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He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.
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Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one; and there are certainly many more men whose history deserves to be recorded than persons willing and able to record it.
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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
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Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
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Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.
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Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
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He that can work is born to be king of something.