Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
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All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale.
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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.
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Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.
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A true delineation of the smallest man is capable of interesting the greatest man.
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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 errors of a wise man are literally more instructive than the truths of a fool. The wise man travels in lofty, far-seeing regions; the fool in low-lying, high-fenced lanes; retracing the footsteps of the former, to discover where he diviated, whole provinces of the universe are laid open to us; in the path of the latter, granting even that he has not deviated at all, little is laid open to us but two wheel-ruts and two hedges.
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Macaulay is well for awhile, but one wouldn't live under Niagara.
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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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Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines of two everlasting empires, - Necessity and Free Will.
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History is a great dust heap.
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Nature, after all, is still the grand agent in making poets.
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That great mystery of TIME, were there no other; the illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean tide, on which we and all the Universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not: this is forever very literally a miracle; a thing to strike us dumb,-for we have no word to speak about it.
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Misery which, through long ages, had no spokesman, no helper, will now be its own helper and speak for itself.
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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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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.
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The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself.
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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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Society is founded on hero-worship.
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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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A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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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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A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.