Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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The Highest Being reveals himself in man.
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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
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Happy season of childhood! Kind Nature, that art to all a bountiful mother; that visitest the poor man's hut With auroral radiance; and for thy nursling hast provided a soft swathing of love and infinite hope wherein he waxes and slumbers, danced round by sweetest dreams!
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Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
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A thought once awakened does not again slumber.
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Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself.
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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.
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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
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Goethe's devil is a cultivated personage and acquainted with the modern sciences; sneers at witchcraft and the black art even while employing them, and doubts most things, nay, half disbelieves even his own existence.
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Out of the lowest depths there is a path to the loftiest heights.
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Wealth has more and more increased, and at the same time gathered itself more and more into masses, strangely altering the old relations, and increasing the distance between the rich and the poor.
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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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All human things do require to have an ideal in them; to have some soul in them.
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What this country needs is a man who knows God other than by heresay.
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There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in idleness alone there is perpetual despair.
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Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things. A sad case for him when all that he can manage to believe is something he can button in his pocket, and with one or the other organ eat and digest! Lower than that he will not get.
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The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.
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A fundamental mistake to call vehemence and rigidity strength! A man is not strong who takes convulsion-fits; though six men cannot hold him then. He that can walk under the heaviest weight without staggering, he is the strong man . . . A man who cannot hold his peace, till the time come for speaking and acting, is no right man.
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One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!
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All human souls, never so bedarkened, love light; light once kindled spreads till all is luminous.
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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
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To a shower of gold most things are penetrable.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.