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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The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
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Fire is the best of servants, but what a master!
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Whoso has sixpence is sovereign (to the length of sixpence) over all men; commands cooks to feed him, philosophers to teach him, kings to mount guard over him,to the length of sixpence.
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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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Heroes have gone out; quacks have come in; the reign of quacks has not ended with the nineteenth century. The sceptre is held with a firmer grasp; the empire has a wider boundary. We are all the slaves of quackery in one shape or another. Indeed, one portion of our being is always playing the successful quack to the other.
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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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Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together by the tie of sympathy.
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Nature admits no lie.
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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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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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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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Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish.
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It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being.
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The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable.
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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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Variety is the condition of harmony.
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Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious.
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Man's earthly interests,'are all hooked and buttoned together, and held up, by Clothes.
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Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth.
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There is a majesty and mystery in nature, take her as you will. The essence of poetry comes breathing to a mind that feels from every province of her empire.
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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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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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Man, it is not thy works, which are mortal, infinitely little, and the greatest no greater than the least, but only the spirit thou workest in, that can have worth or continuance.