Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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The archenemy is the arch stupid!
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The public is anold woman.Let her maunderand mumble.
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Speak not at all, in any wise, till you have somewhat to speak; care not for the reward of your speaking, but simply and with undivided mind for the truth of your speaking.
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As there is no danger of our becoming, any of us, Mahometans (i.e. Muslim), I mean to say all the good of him I justly can.
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Superstition! that horrid incubus which dwelt in darkness, shunning the light, with all its racks, and poison chalices, and foul sleeping draughts, is passing away without return. Religion cannot pass away. The burning of a little straw may hide the stars of the sky; but the stars are there and will reappear.
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Heroes, it would seem, exist always and a certain worship of them.
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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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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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No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.
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If I had my way, the world would hear a pretty stern command - Exit Christ.
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Debt is a bottomless sea.
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A man must indeed be a hero to appear such in the eyes of his valet.
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For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.
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A man's perfection is his work.
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Every man is my superior in that I may learn from him.
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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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The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.
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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 human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man!
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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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Biography is the only true history.
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The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.
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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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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.