All Thomas Carlyle Quotes
- If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all. All
- The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive. Alive
- One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore! Chance
- Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can. All
- The Christian must be consumed by the conviction of the infinite beauty of holiness and the infinite damnability of sin. Beauty
- Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so. Brave
- Experience takes dreadfully high school-wages, but he teaches like no other. Dreadfully
- What is all knowledge except recorded experience, and a product of history? All
- Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here. Accomplished
- History is the distillation of rumour. Distillation
- History is the essence of innumerable biographies. Biographies
- In a certain sense all men are historians. All
- History is the new poetry. Funny
- In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing. Brings
- That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy. Call
- What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion,… Action
- There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed. Faithfully
- Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought. Call
- Great souls are always loyally submissive, reverent to what is over them: only small mean souls are otherwise. Great
- No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than himself, dwells in the breast of man. It is to this hour, and at… Admiration
- This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it. All
- It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe. Alters
- Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one. All
- Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same?… Change
- The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or… All