All Thomas Carlyle Quotes
- By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears. Actually Fallen
- There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once… Acting
- Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is. Enjoy
- The dead are all holy, even they that were base and wicked while alive. Their baseness and wickedness was not they, was but the heavy… Alive
- Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you. Cease
- Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call… All
- Painful for a person is rebellious independence, only in loving companionship with his associates does a person feel safe: Only in reverently bowing down before… Associates
- Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man. Accident
- The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. Conscious
- In books lies the soul of the whole past time. Books
- Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the… All
- Work alone is noble. Alone
- Happy the people whose annals are vacant. Annals
- History, a distillation of rumour. Distillation
- For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there… Creation
- What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of… All
- Experience is the best of schoolmasters, only the school fees are heavy Best
- The deepest depth of vulgarism is that of setting up money as the ark of the covenant. Ark
- Love is not altogether a , yet it has many points in common therewith Altogether
- Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books. Annals
- Laissez-faire, Supply-and-demand, - one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egoism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause: it… All
- If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all. All
- Alas, the fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself Alas
- Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-cancelling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero Business
- Democracy is cumbersome, slow and inefficient, but in due time, the voice of the people will be heard and their latent wisdom will prevail Cumbersome