Thomas Carlyle Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle Famous Quotes & Sayings
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It is now almost my sole rule of life to clear myself of cants and formulas, as of poisonous Nessus shirts.
Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
Thou fool! Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom; that idle crag thou sittest on is six thousand years of age.
The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.
Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet; not so the transition from the former to the latter.
OH, Heaven,it is mysterious,it is awful to consider
that we not only carry a future Ghost within us. but
are,in very deed, GHOSTS !
that we not only carry a future Ghost within us. but
are,in very deed, GHOSTS !
Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk.
The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it.
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.
A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
Great souls are always loyally submissive, reverent to what is over them: only small mean souls are otherwise.
At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed?
It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.
Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.
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.
A background of wrath, which can be stirred up to the murderous infernal pitch, does lie in every man.
Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul!
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
The Christian must be consumed by the conviction of the infinite beauty of holiness and the infinite damnability of sin.
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.
Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.
For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.