All Thomas Carlyle Quotes
- The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice. Discern
- There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong. Finding
- Man is, and was always, a block-head and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and consider. Block
- Nothing ever happens but once in all this world. What I do now I do once for all. It is over and gone, with all… All
- What unknown seas of feeling lie in man, and will from time to time break through! Break
- Pin thy faith to no man's sleeve. Hast thou not two eyes of thy own? Eye
- Our very walking is an incessant falling; a falling and a catching of ourselves before we come actually to the pavement. It is emblematic of… All
- Is there no God, then, but at best an absentee God, sitting idle, ever since the first Sabbath, at the outside of his Universe? Absentee
- Men worship the shows of great men; the most disbelieve that there is any reality of great men to worship. Any
- Feel it in thy heart and then say whether it is of God! Feel
- No man at bottom means injustice; it is always for some obscure distorted image of a right that he contends: an obscure image diffracted, exaggerated,… Able
- Love not pleasure; love God. This is the Everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved ... All
- Oblivion is the dark page, whereon Memory writes her light-beam characters, and makes them legible; were it all light, nothing could be read there, any… All
- The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear. Always Attractive
- To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow. All
- Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal. Art
- A man should be encouraged to do what the Maker of him has intended by the making of him, according as the gifts have been… According
- There is something in man which your science cannot satisfy. Cannot Satisfy
- Speech is silver, silence is golden. Gold
- I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic. All
- The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin; whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but… Any
- A battle is a terrible conjugation of the verb to kill: I kill, thou killest, he kills, we kill, they kill, all kill. All
- ... There is always hope in a man who actually and earnestly works. Always Hope
- He that will not work according to his faculty, let him perish according to his necessity: there is no law juster than that. According
- Does not every true man feel that he is himself made higher by doing reverence to what is really above him? Doe