Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.
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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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The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable.
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No violent extreme endures.
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O Time! Time! how it brings forth and devours! And the roaring flood of existence rushes on forever similar, forever changing!
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A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.
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A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
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The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself.
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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.
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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 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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The mystery of a person, indeed, is ever divine to him that has a sense for the godlike.
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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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Society is founded on hero-worship.
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Force, force, everywhere force; we ourselves a mysterious force in the centre of that. "There is not a leaf rotting on the highway but has Force in it: how else could it rot?" As used in his time, by the word force, Carlyle means energy.
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The deadliest sin were the consciousness of no sin.
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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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Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own.
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It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being.
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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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Know what thou canst work at, and work at it like a Hercules.
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The Persians are called the French of the East; we will call the Arabs Oriental Italians. A gifted noble people; a people of wildstrong feelings, and of iron restraint over these: the characteristic of noblemindedness, of genius.
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History is a great dust heap.
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Silence, the great Empire of Silence: higher than all stars; deeper than the Kingdom of Death! It alone is great; all else is small.