Philosophy of Mind Quotes by Thomas Carlyle

Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought.

— Thomas Carlyle

The deadliest sin were the consciousness of no sin

— Thomas Carlyle

Literature is the thought of thinking souls.

— Thomas Carlyle

The greatest fault is to be conscious of none.

— Thomas Carlyle

Thought will not work except in silence.

— Thomas Carlyle

Thought is the parent of the deed.

— Thomas Carlyle

Language is called the garment of thought: however, it should rather be, language is the flesh-garment, the body, of thought.

— Thomas Carlyle

The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind.

— Thomas Carlyle

Of our thinking it is but the upper surface that we shape into articulate thought; underneath the region of argument and conscious…

— Thomas Carlyle

History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature, his earliest…

— Thomas Carlyle

A very sea of thought; neither calm nor clear, if you will, yet wherein the toughest pearl-diver may dive to his utmost…

— Thomas Carlyle

Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation,…

— Thomas Carlyle