World Quotes by Thomas Carlyle

“To men in their sleep there is nothing granted in this world.”

— Thomas Carlyle

The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

— Thomas Carlyle

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

— Thomas Carlyle

One monster there is in the world, the idle man.

— Thomas Carlyle

The latest gospel in this world is, know thy work and do it.

— Thomas Carlyle

Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.

— Thomas Carlyle

The great soul of this world is just.

— Thomas Carlyle

A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.

— Thomas Carlyle

The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence…

— Thomas Carlyle

Nothing ever happens but once in all this world. What I do now I do once for all. It is over and…

— Thomas Carlyle

At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed?

— Thomas Carlyle

Parties on the back of Parties, at war with the world and with each other.

— Thomas Carlyle

There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man.

— Thomas Carlyle

If I had my way, the world would hear a pretty stern command - Exit Christ.

— Thomas Carlyle

The true Sovereign of the world, who moulds the world like soft wax, according to his pleasure, is he who lovingly sees…

— Thomas Carlyle

It is meritorious to insist on forms; religion and all else naturally clothes itself in forms. Everywhere the formed world is the…

— Thomas Carlyle

There must be a new world if there is to be any world at all!... These days of universal death must be…

— Thomas Carlyle

The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin; whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth…

— Thomas Carlyle

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only…

— Thomas Carlyle

Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union-bond of man to man. Cash never yet paid one…

— Thomas Carlyle

In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of…

— Thomas Carlyle

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you…

— Thomas Carlyle

In this world there is one godlike thing, the essence of all that was or ever will be of godlike in this…

— Thomas Carlyle

With respect to duels, indeed, I have my own ideas. Few things in this so surprising world strike me with more surprise.…

— Thomas Carlyle

Alas! we know that ideals can never be completely embodied in practice. Ideals must ever lie a great way off--and we will…

— Thomas Carlyle

These Arabs, the man Mahomet, and that one century, - is it not as if a spark had fallen, one spark, on…

— Thomas Carlyle

Consider in fact, a body of six hundred and fifty-eight miscellaneous persons, set to consult about "business," with twenty-seven millions, mostly fools,…

— Thomas Carlyle

Look around you. Your world-hosts are all in mutiny, in confusion, destitution; on the eve of fiery wreck and madness! They will…

— Thomas Carlyle

Does it ever give thee pause that men used to have a soul? Not by hearsay alone, or as a figure of…

— Thomas Carlyle

But deepest of all illusory Appearances, for hiding Wonder, as for many other ends, are your two grand fundamental world-enveloping Appearances, SPACE…

— Thomas Carlyle

Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it?

— Thomas Carlyle

Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker…

— Thomas Carlyle

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place…

— Thomas Carlyle

Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world's judgment.

— Thomas Carlyle

Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who…

— Thomas Carlyle

“No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving…

— Thomas Carlyle

Such is the world. Understand it, despise it, love it; cheerfully hold on thy way through it, with thy eye on highest…

— Thomas Carlyle

Democracy will itself accomplish the salutary universal change from delusive to real, and make a new blessed world of us by and…

— Thomas Carlyle

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

— Thomas Carlyle

Genuine Work alone, what thou workest faithfully, that is eternal, as the Almighty Founder and World-Builder himself.

— Thomas Carlyle