Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.
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Happy season of virtuous youth, when shame is still an impassable barrier, and the sacred air-cities of hope have not shrunk into the mean clay hamlets of reality; and man, by his nature, is yet infinite and free.
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I call that Book of Job, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with pen.
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God gave you that gifted tongue of yours, and set it between your teeth, to make known your true meaning to us, not to be rattled like a muffin man's bell.
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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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He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem.
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Man is a tool-using animal.
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In idleness there is a perpetual despair.
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It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
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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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We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our own position in it. Let us, instead of gazing idly into the obscure distance, look calmly around us, for a little, on the perplexed scene where we stand. Perhaps, on a more serious inspection, something of its perplexity will disappear, some of its distinctive characters and deeper tendencies more clearly reveal themselves; whereby our own relations to it, our own true aims and endeavors in it, may also become clearer.
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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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Quackery gives birth to nothing; gives death to all things.
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Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish.
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A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.
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Rare benevolence, the minister of God.
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Men worship the shows of great men; the most disbelieve that there is any reality of great men to worship.
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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.
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Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.
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Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.
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Habit and imitation--there is nothing more perennial in us than these two. They are the source of all working, and all apprenticeship, of all practice, and all learning, in this world.