Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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And man's little Life has Duties that are great, that are alone great, and go up to Heaven and down to Hell.
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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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Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
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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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Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, with which all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite... Try him with half of a Universe, of an Omnipotence, he sets to quarreling with the proprietor of the other half, and declares himself the most maltreated of men. Always there is a black spot in our sunshine: It is even, as I said, the Shadow of Ourselves.
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Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.
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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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Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all.
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Faith is loyalty to some inspired teacher, some spiritual hero.
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth.
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Metaphysics is the attempt of the mind to rise above the mind.
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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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The true eye for talent presupposes the true reverence for it.
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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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Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.
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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 graceful minuet-dance of fancy must give place to the toilsome, thorny pilgrimage of understanding. On the transition from the age of romance to that of science.
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Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
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A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.
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Quackery gives birth to nothing; gives death to all things.
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The stifled hum of midnight, when traffic has lain down to rest, and the chariot wheels of Vanity, still rolling here and there through distant streets, are bearing her to halls roofed in and lighted to the due pitch for her; and only vice and misery, to prowl or to moan like night birds, are abroad.
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We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.
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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.