Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Parties on the back of Parties, at war with the world and with each other.
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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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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History is a great dust heap.
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Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.
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Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History Books!
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If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.
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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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Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.
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No man is born without ambitious worldly desires.
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Society is founded upon Cloth.
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To the vulgar eye, few things are wonderful that are not distant.
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I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.
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The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
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The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself.
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A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer.
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Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance.
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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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Fancy that thou deservest to be hangedthou wilt feel it happiness to be only shot: fancy that thou deservest to be hanged ina hair halter, it will be a luxury to die in hemp.
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Well might the ancients make silence a god; for it is the element of all godhood, infinitude, or transcendental greatness,--at once the source and the ocean wherein all such begins and ends.
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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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If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin.
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Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself.
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Love not Pleasure; love God.