Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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The devil has his elect.
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When I gaze into the stars, they look down upon me with pity from their serene and silent spaces, like eyes glistening with tears over the little lot of man. Thousands of generations, all as noisy as our own, have been swallowed up by time, and there remains no record of them any more. Yet Arcturus and Orion, Sirius and Pleiades, are still shining in their courses, clear and young, as when the shepherd first noted them in the plain of Shinar!
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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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There are depths in man that go to the lowest hell, and heights that reach the highest heaven, for are not both heaven and hell made out of him, everlasting miracle and mystery that he is.
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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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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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What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me?
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Heroes, it would seem, exist always and a certain worship of them.
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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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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.
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Labor is life: from the inmost heart of the worker rises his God-given force, the sacred celestial life-essence breathed into him by Almighty God!
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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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Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.
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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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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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Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.
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A judicious man looks at Statistics, not to "get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted 'on him".
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There must be a new world if there is to be any world at all!... These days of universal death must be days of universal new birth, if the ruin is not to be total and final! It is Time to make the dullest man consider; and ask himself, Whence he came? Whither he is bound?
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All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!
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Every man is my superior in that I may learn from him.
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Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another and all against evil only.
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Wonder is the basis of worship.