Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.
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A lie should be trampled on and extinguished wherever found. I am for fumigating the atmosphere when I suspect that falsehood, like pestilence, breathes around me.
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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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He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide.
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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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Experience of actual fact either teaches fools or abolishes them.
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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
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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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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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Every man has a coward and hero in his soul.
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Metaphysics is the attempt of the mind to rise above the mind.
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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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Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him.
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Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.
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The Christian must be consumed by the conviction of the infinite beauty of holiness and the infinite damnability of sin.
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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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Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
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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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Freedom is the one purport, wisely aimed at, or unwisely, of all man's struggles, toilings and sufferings, in this earth.
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In books lies the soul fo the whole past time.
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All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.
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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.