To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
No man at bottom means injustice; it is always for some obscure distorted image of a right that he contends: an obscure… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Force, force, everywhere force; we ourselves a mysterious force in the centre of that. "There is not a leaf rotting on the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
We are to take no counsel with flesh and blood; give ear to no vain cavils, vain sorrows and wishes; to know… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
To be true is manly, chivalrous, Christian; to be false is mean, cowardly, devilish. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
How, without clothes, could we possess the master organ, soul's seat and true pineal gland of the body social--I mean a purse? — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
We have chosen Mahomet not as the most eminent Prophet; but as the one we are freest to speak of. He is… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Great souls are always loyally submissive, reverent to what is over them: only small mean souls are otherwise. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Happy season of virtuous youth, when shame is still an impassable barrier, and the sacred air-cities of hope have not shrunk into… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
'Genius' which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing." — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
As there is no danger of our becoming, any of us, Mahometans (i.e. Muslim), I mean to say all the good of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Taste, if it mean anything but a paltry connoisseurship, must mean a general susceptibility to truth and nobleness, a sense to discern,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession;… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
All human things do require to have an ideal in them; to have some soul in them. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Let Time and Chance combine, combine! Let Time and Chance combine! The fairest love from heaven above, That love of yours was mine, My… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
![“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.]” quote by Thomas Carlyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1ae/thomas-carlyle-207_centre_force-force-everywhere-force-we-ourselve_859795.jpg)
