Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Society is founded on hero-worship.
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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.
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The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable.
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The healthy know not of their health, but only the sick: this is the physician's aphorism, and applicable in a far wider sense than he gives it.
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No violent extreme endures.
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The universe is but one vast Symbol of God.
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Parties on the back of Parties, at war with the world and with each other.
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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 person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.
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A pygmy standing on the outward crust of this small planet, his far-reaching spirit stretches outward to the infinite, and there alone finds rest.
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Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together by the tie of sympathy.
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A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.
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Know what thou canst work at, and work at it like a Hercules.
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Laws themselves, political Constitutions, are not our Life; but only the house wherein our Life is led.
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No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.
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The mystery of a person, indeed, is ever divine to him that has a sense for the godlike.
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Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish.
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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.
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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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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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No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes towards it. There they are gathered together, blinking up to it with such vision as they have, scanning it from afar, hovering round it this way and that, each cunningly endeavoring, by all arts, to catch some reflex of it in the little mirror of himself.
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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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Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices of great men, so it is likewise reformed by their moderation.
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Neither let mistakes and wrong directions - of which every man, in his studies and elsewhere, falls into many - discourage you. There is precious instruction to be got by finding that we are wrong. Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right, he will grow daily more and more right. It is, at bottom, the condition which all men have to cultivate themselves. Our very walking is an incessant falling - a falling and a catching of ourselves before we come actually to the pavement! - it is emblematic of all things a man does.