Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.
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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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There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.
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The times are very bad. Very well, you are there to make them better.
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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.
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Coining "Dismal Science" as a nickname for Political Economy.
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All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.
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Out of the lowest depths there is a path to the loftiest heights.
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One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
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We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs as we have never heard questioned.
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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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A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.
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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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Fire is the best of servants, but what a master!
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a Life-purpose... Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what real happiness is... Even in the meanest sorts of Labour, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work!
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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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Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious.
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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.