All Thomas Carlyle Quotes
- In idleness there is a perpetual despair. Despair
- Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another and all against evil only. All
- What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed He then that ever speaks through thee,… Art
- Society is founded upon Cloth; Cloth
- Why multiply instances? It is written, the Heavens and the Earth shall fade away like a Vesture; which indeed they are: the Time-vesture of the… All
- Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books! Annals
- Laissez-faire, supply and demand-one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egotism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause-it is… All
- Philosophy dwells aloft in the Temple of Science, the divinity of its inmost shrine; her dictates descend among men, but she herself descends not :… Admission
- It is great, and there is no other greatness-to make one nook of God's Creation more fruitful, better, more worthy of God; to make some… Better
- Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men;… Beings
- Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser. Commissioned
- Oh, Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry a future Ghost within us; but are, in very deed,… Awful
- All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls! All
- Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero. Business
- History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background. Background
- Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own. Eye
- Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. Action
- To me the Universe was all void of Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hostility; it was one huge, dead, immeasurable Steam-engine, rolling on,… All
- The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession; like… Dearer
- He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem. Heroic
- Thirty millions, mostly fools. England
- Infinite is the help man can yield to man. Brotherhood
- The mystical bond of brotherhood makes all men brothers. All
- No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors. Become Permanent
- The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something. The strongest, by dispensing his over many, may fail to… Accomplish