Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Heroes, it would seem, exist always and a certain worship of them.
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A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
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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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It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.
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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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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
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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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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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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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Is not light grander than fire? It is the same element in a state of purity.
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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Faith is loyalty to some inspired teacher, some spiritual hero.
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We have chosen Mahomet not as the most eminent Prophet; but as the one we are freest to speak of. He is by no means the truest of Prophets; but I do esteem him a true one.
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All that a university or final highest school. can do for us is still but what the first school began doing--teach us to read. We learn to read in various languages, in various sciences; we learn the alphabet and letters of all manner of books. But the place where we are to get knowledge, even theoretic knowledge, is the books themselves. It depends on what we read, after all manner of professors have done their best for us. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
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One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.
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The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.
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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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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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Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers.
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Every man has a coward and hero in his soul.
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Wealth of a man is the number of things which he loves and blesses which he is loved and blessed by.
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Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance; inseparable (for men) yet not hostile, only opposed.
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To be true is manly, chivalrous, Christian; to be false is mean, cowardly, devilish.
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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.