Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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The meaning of song goes deep. Who in logical words can explain the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite, and lets us for a moment gaze into that!
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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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A dandy is a clothes-wearing man--a man whose trade, office, and existence consist in the wearing of clothes. Every faculty of his soul, spirit, person and purse is heroically consecrated to this one object--the wearing of clothes, wisely and well; so that, as others dress to live, he lives to dress.
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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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Pin thy faith to no man's sleeve. Hast thou not two eyes of thy own?
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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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The true eye for talent presupposes the true reverence for it.
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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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If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.
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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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A mind that has seen, and suffered, and done, speaks to us of what it has tried and conquered.
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Quackery gives birth to nothing; gives death to all things.
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The end of Man is an Action, and not a Thought, though it were the noblest?
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Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
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Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind.
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To each is given a certain inward talent, a certain outward environment or fortune; to each by wisest combination of these two, a certain maximum capacity.
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Learn to be good readers, which is perhaps a more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn to be discriminative in your reading; to read faithfully, and with your best attention, all kinds of things which you have a real interest in,--a real, not an imaginary,--and which you find to be really fit for what you are engaged in.
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Every man is my superior in that I may learn from him.
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Metaphysics is the attempt of the mind to rise above the mind.
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Is not light grander than fire? It is the same element in a state of purity.
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To be true is manly, chivalrous, Christian; to be false is mean, cowardly, devilish.
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No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.
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In books lies the soul fo the whole past time.
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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.