All Thomas Carlyle Quotes
- Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker in the world? All
- A fair day's wage for a fair day's work": it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the… Day
- Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed this His universe to go. Adjuncts
- High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well bedded also in good Logic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge will come to lodge. Air
- Genuine Work alone, what thou workest faithfully, that is eternal, as the Almighty Founder and World-Builder himself. Almighty
- Man always worships something; always he sees the Infinite shadowed forth in something finite; and indeed can and must so see it in any finite… Any
- The goal of yesterday will be our starting-point to-morrow. Goal
- A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road; a man with a whole volition advances… Achieve
- Reform, like charity, must begin at home. Begin
- Nature admits no lie. Admits
- Nakedness, hunger, distress of all kinds, death itself have been cheerfully suffered, when the heart was right. It is the feeling of injustice that is… All
- It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being. Consciously
- Society is founded on hero-worship. Founded
- Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man. Admiration
- Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind. Among
- No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses. Far
- I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country. Country
- It is in general more profitable to reckon up our defeats than to boast of our attainments. Attainment
- Music... a kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads to the edge of the Infinite. Contemplation
- The greatest security against sin is to be shocked at its presence. Greatest
- Great men are the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain. Attain
- Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future. Future
- The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once. Crash
- The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity. Acceptance
- The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss. Life