All Thomas Carlyle Quotes
- A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space. Folly
- It is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy; but it is error, insincerity, half belief and untruth that make it. Anarchy
- Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile. Eternity
- The authentic insight and experience of any human soul, were it but insight and experience in hewing of wood and drawing of water, is real… Acquirement
- It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men. All
- In a different time, in a different place, it is always some other side of our common human nature that has been developing itself. The… Actual
- All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale. All
- No age seemed the age of romance to itself. Age
- Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself. All
- To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic's can but babble on the surface. Art
- The mystery of a person, indeed, is ever divine to him that has a sense for the godlike. Divine
- With stupidity and sound digestion, man may front much. Digestion
- Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour, but then centuries to try it in, they are found to be identical. Centuries
- A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow… Anxiety
- The Builder of this Universe was wise, He plann'd all souls, all systems, planets, particles: The Plan He shap'd all Worlds and Æons by, Was-Heavens!-was… All
- The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past. Funny
- The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person. Arrival
- Only the person of worth can recognize the worth in others. Funny
- Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction. Fiction
- Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong. Feeling
- Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets… Composed
- Song is the heroics of speech. Heroics
- Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men. All
- Over the times thou hast no power. . . . Solely over one man thou hast quite absolute power. Him redeem and make honest. Absolute
- There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out. Debt