The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Nothing ever happens but once in all this world. What I do now I do once for all. It is over and… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed? — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
If I had my way, the world would hear a pretty stern command - Exit Christ. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The true Sovereign of the world, who moulds the world like soft wax, according to his pleasure, is he who lovingly sees… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
It is meritorious to insist on forms; religion and all else naturally clothes itself in forms. Everywhere the formed world is the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There must be a new world if there is to be any world at all!... These days of universal death must be… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin; whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Beautiful it is, and a gleam from the same eternal pole-star visible amid the destinies of men, that all talent, all intellect,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
With respect to duels, indeed, I have my own ideas. Few things in this so surprising world strike me with more surprise.… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
These Arabs, the man Mahomet, and that one century, - is it not as if a spark had fallen, one spark, on… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Does it ever give thee pause that men used to have a soul? Not by hearsay alone, or as a figure of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it? — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world's judgment. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Democracy will itself accomplish the salutary universal change from delusive to real, and make a new blessed world of us by and… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Such is the world. Understand it, despise it, love it; cheerfully hold on thy way through it, with thy eye on highest… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Genuine Work alone, what thou workest faithfully, that is eternal, as the Almighty Founder and World-Builder himself. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
In our wide world there is but one altogether fatal personage, the dunce,--he that speaks irrationally, that sees not, and yet thinks… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
One of the Godlike things of this world is the veneration done to human worth by the hearts of men. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. — 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
