Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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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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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world's judgment.
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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.
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No man is born without ambitious worldly desires.
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The first purpose of clothes... was not warmth or decency, but ornament.... Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to clothes. The first spiritual want of a barbarous man is decoration; as indeed we still see among the barbarous classes in civilized countries.
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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Variety is the condition of harmony.
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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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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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A poor creature who has said or done nothing worth a serious man taking the trouble of remembering.
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We observe with confidence that the truly strong mind, view it as intellect or morality, or under any other aspect, is nowise the mind acquainted with its strength; that here the sign of health is unconsciousness.
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Manhood begins when we have in any way made truce with Necessity; begins even when we have surrendered to Necessity, as the most part only do; but begins joyfully and hopefully only when we have reconciled ourselves to Necessity; and thus, in reality, triumphed over it, and felt that in Necessity we are free.
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Leaders: Captains of industry.
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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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Coining "Dismal Science" as a nickname for Political Economy.
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Creation is great, and cannot be understood.
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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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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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"Love is not altogether a Delirium," says he elsewhere; "yet has it many points in common therewith."
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I never heard tell of any clever man that came of entirely stupid people.
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Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious.
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No violent extreme endures.
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A heavenly awe overshadowed and encompassed, as it still ought, and must, all earthly business whatsoever.