All Thomas Carlyle Quotes
- The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love. Gives
- No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work… Any
- Democracy will prevail when men believe the vote of Judas as good as that of Jesus Christ. Believe
- One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music. Fatigue
- A man's perfection is his work. Inspirational
- Man's Unhappiness... comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, with which all his cunning he cannot quite bury under… All
- That a Parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an entity which by its very nature cannot do work, but… Entity
- A fair day's wages for a fair day's work. Day
- All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone. All
- Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles. Accuracy
- Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to lead us to heaven-ward, or magician… Faculty
- But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of… Act
- Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for… Active
- The devil has his elect. Devil
- The age of miracles is forever here. Age
- Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to. Agreeable
- History is a great dust heap. Dust
- Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History. Ashes
- Pain was not given thee merely to be miserable under; learn from it, turn it to account. Account
- We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it. Author
- The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke; there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire. Consume
- The eternal stars shine out as soon as it is dark enough. Dark
- Intellect is the soul of man, the only immortal part of him. Him
- A man's religion consists, not of the many things he is in doubt of and tries to believe, but of the few he is assured… Assured
- No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own… Alone