Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.
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Worship is transcendent wonder.
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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.
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Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.
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He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem.
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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth.
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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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The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. The greatest of faults, I should say is to be conscious of none.
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To be true is manly, chivalrous, Christian; to be false is mean, cowardly, devilish.
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Not our Logical, Mensurative faculty, but our Imaginative one is King over us; I might say, Priest and Prophet to lead us heavenward; or Magician and Wizard to lead us hellward.
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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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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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Metaphysics is the attempt of the mind to rise above the mind.
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Faith is loyalty to some inspired teacher, some spiritual hero.
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Evil, once manfully fronted, ceases to be evil; there is generous battle-hope in place of dead, passive misery; the evil itself has become a kind of good.
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Man is a tool-using animal.
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I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic.
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Quackery gives birth to nothing; gives death to all things.
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Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
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We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.