Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
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Fire is the best of servants, but what a master!
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The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
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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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I think Scandinavian Paganism, to us here, is more interesting than any other. It is, for one thing, the latest; it continued in these regions of Europe till the eleventh century; 800 years ago the Norwegians were still worshipers of Odin. It is interesting also as the creed of our fathers; the men whose blood still runs in our veins, whom doubtless we still resemble in so many ways.
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Friend, hast thou considered the "rugged, all-nourishing earth," as Sophocles well names her; how she feeds the sparrow on the housetop, much more her darling man?
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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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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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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.
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Variety is the condition of harmony.
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History is a great dust heap.
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A true delineation of the smallest man is capable of interesting the greatest man.
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Leaders: Captains of industry.
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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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The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him.
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The all importance of clothes has sprung up in the intellect of the dandy without effort, like an instinct of genius; he is inspired with clothes, a poet of clothes.
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Such is the world. Understand it, despise it, love it; cheerfully hold on thy way through it, with thy eye on highest loadstars!
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Know what thou canst work at, and work at it like a Hercules.
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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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If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.
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Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious.
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Society is founded on hero-worship.
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It is a fact which escapes no one, that, generally speaking, whoso is acquainted with his worth has but a little stock to cultivate acquaintance with.
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This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.