Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught.
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The times are very bad. Very well, you are there to make them better.
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There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man.
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Out of the lowest depths there is a path to the loftiest heights.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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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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In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.
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History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
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There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.
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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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It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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This London City, with all of its houses, palaces, steam-engines, cathedrals, and huge immeasurable traffic an tumult, what is it but a Thought, but millions of Thoughts made into One-a huge immeasurable Spirit of a Thought, embodied in brick, in iron, smoke, dust, Palaces, Parliaments, Hackney Coaches, Katherine Docks, and the rest of it! Not a brick was made but some man had to think of the making of that brick.
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He that will not work according to his faculty, let him perish according to his necessity: there is no law juster than that.
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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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Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk.
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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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For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.
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Coining "Dismal Science" as a nickname for Political Economy.
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It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.
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If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
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The great law of culture is, Let each become all that he was created capable of being; expand, if possible, to his full growth; resisting all impediments, casting off all foreign, especially all noxious adhesions, and show himself at length in his own shape and stature be these what they may.