All Thomas Carlyle Quotes
- Self-contemplation is infallibly the symptom of disease. Contemplation
- Is not every meanest day the confluence of two eternities? Confluence
- So here hath been dawning Another blue day; Think, wilt thou let it Slip useless away? Out of eternity This new day is born, Into… Been
- All comes out even at the end of the day. All
- Obedience is our universal duty and destiny; wherein whoso will not bend must break; too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know… Bend
- God gave you that gifted tongue of yours, and set it between your teeth, to make known your true meaning to us, not to be… Bell
- Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans that of--the air! Air
- There is no permanent place in this universe for evil... Evil may hide behind this fallacy and that, but it will be hunted from fallacy… Behind
- Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately at all; and there she but maunders and mumbles. All
- We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness. Funny
- A man must indeed be a hero to appear such in the eyes of his valet. Appear
- Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul. Eye
- History: A distillation of rumor. Distillation
- All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible. All
- Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices of… Affected
- Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it? Able
- A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up. Able
- And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable. Conceivable
- There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done. Endless
- The stifled hum of midnight, when traffic has lain down to rest, and the chariot wheels of Vanity, still rolling here and there through distant… Abroad
- Before philosophy can teach by Experience, the Philosophy has to be in readiness, the Experience must be gathered and intelligibly recorded. Experience
- He who first shortened the labor of Copyists by device of Movable Types was disbanding hired armies and cashiering most Kings and Senates, and creating… Armies
- Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt. Alone
- Speak not at all, in any wise, till you have somewhat to speak; care not for the reward of your speaking, but simply and with… All
- He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of virtuous living. Assist