Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Is not every meanest day the confluence of two eternities?
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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.
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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.
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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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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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It is in general more profitable to reckon up our defeats than to boast of our attainments.
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I never heard tell of any clever man that came of entirely stupid people.
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All great peoples are conservative.
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Society is founded upon Cloth.
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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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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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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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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 aristocracy of feudal parchment has passed away with a mighty rushing, and now, by a natural course, we arrive at aristocracy of the money-bag.
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Nature, after all, is still the grand agent in making poets.
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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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There is no permanent place in this universe for evil... Evil may hide behind this fallacy and that, but it will be hunted from fallacy to fallacy until there is no more fallacy for it to hide behind.
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A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
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Variety is the condition of harmony.
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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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Earnestness alone makes life eternity.
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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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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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Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.