Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.
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History is a great dust heap.
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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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A true delineation of the smallest man is capable of interesting the greatest man.
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Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world's judgment.
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O Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry each a future Ghost within him; but are, in very deed, Ghosts!
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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man.
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The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once.
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When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
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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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A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.
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Ever, as before, does Madness remain a mysterious-terrific, altogether infernal boiling-up of the Nether Chaotic Deep, through this fair-painted Vision of Creation, which swims thereon, which we name the Real.
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Lies exist only to be extinguished.
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The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
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Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History Books!
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Alas! we know that ideals can never be completely embodied in practice. Ideals must ever lie a great way off--and we will thankfully content ourselves with any not intolerable approximation thereto! Let no man, as Schiller says, too querulously "measure by a scale of perfection the meager product of reality" in this poor world of ours.
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No man is born without ambitious worldly desires.
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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A frightful dialect for the stupid, the pedant and dullard sort.
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The philosopher is he to whom the highest has descended, and the lowest has mounted up; who is the equal and kindly brother of all.
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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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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.
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Macaulay is well for awhile, but one wouldn't live under Niagara.