Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.
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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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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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Let him who would move and convince others, be first moved and convinced himself.
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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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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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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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Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
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He that can work is born to be king of something.
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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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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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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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Wonder is the basis of worship.
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Obedience is our universal duty and destiny; wherein whoso will not bend must break; too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know that "would," in this world of ours, is a mere zero to "should," and for most part as the smallest of fractions even to "shall.
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Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
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Democracy will prevail when men believe the vote of Judas as good as that of Jesus Christ.
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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
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Authors are the vanguard in the march of mind, the intellectual backwoodsmen, reclaiming from the idle wilderness new territories for the thought and activity of their happier brethren.
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If I had my way, the world would hear a pretty stern command - Exit Christ.
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For, strictly considered, what is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?
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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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Biography is the only true history.