All Thomas Carlyle Quotes
- The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die. Art
- There is but one temple in this Universe: The Body. We speak to God whenever we lay our hands upon it. Body
- Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever? Burst
- The first purpose of clothes... was not warmth or decency, but ornament.... Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to clothes. The… Among
- Are we not Spirits, that are shaped into a body, into an Appearance; and that fade away again into air and Invisibility? Oh, Heaven, it… Air
- The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent. All
- What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words.... Be not the slave of Words... Aphorism
- We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings. Beings
- Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one… Age
- Dinners are defined as 'the ultimate act of communion;' men that can have communion in nothing else, can sympathetically eat together, can still rise into… Act
- I call the book of Job, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with the pen. All
- Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows. Already Understands
- Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature. Creature
- For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer. Creator
- The purpose of man is in action not thought. Action
- A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases… Ceases
- God Almighty never created a man half as wise as he looks. Almighty
- At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed? Aggression
- He that has done nothing has known nothing. Action
- Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together. Action
- A background of wrath, which can be stirred up to the murderous infernal pitch, does lie in every man. Anger
- A man lives by believing something. Belief
- Courtesy is the due of man to man; not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes. Clothes
- Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain-tricks of custom: but of all of these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous,… All
- This little life has its duties that are great-that are alone great, and that go up to heaven and down to hell. Alone