Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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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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I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.
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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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Coining "Dismal Science" as a nickname for Political Economy.
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Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious.
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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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Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze.
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The purpose of man is in action not thought.
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No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.
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Out of the lowest depths there is a path to the loftiest heights.
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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.
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The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice.
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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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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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To the vulgar eye, few things are wonderful that are not distant.
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Great men are the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain.
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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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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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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Fire is the best of servants, but what a master!
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It is well said, in every sense, that a man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him.
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Man's earthly interests,'are all hooked and buttoned together, and held up, by Clothes.
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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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Hunger whets everything, especially Suspicion and Indignation.