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Him Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
- Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
- If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk,…
- Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.
- Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot…
- As there is no danger of our becoming, any of us, Mahometans (i.e. Muslim), I mean to say all the good of him I justly…
- When Pococke inquired of Grotius, where the proof was of that story of the pigeon, trained to pick peas from Mahomet's (Muhammad's) ear, and pass…
- These Arabs, the man Mahomet, and that one century, - is it not as if a spark had fallen, one spark, on a world of…
- The mystery of a person, indeed, is ever divine to him that has a sense for the godlike.
- 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…
- Over the times thou hast no power. . . . Solely over one man thou hast quite absolute power. Him redeem and make honest.
- Let him who wants to move and convince others, be first moved and convinced himself.
- Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to…
- Statistics, one may hope, will improve gradually, and become good for something. Meanwhile, it is to be feared the crabbed satirist was partly right, as…
- Contented saturnine human figures, a dozen or so of them, sitting around a large long table...Perfect equality is to be the rule; no rising or…
- Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A man lives by…
- Man's Unhappiness... comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, with which all his cunning he cannot quite bury under…
- Intellect is the soul of man, the only immortal part of him.
- Philosophy dwells aloft in the Temple of Science, the divinity of its inmost shrine; her dictates descend among men, but she herself descends not :…
- Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men;…
- The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession; like…
- Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a…
- A judicious man uses statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted upon him.
- The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all…
- A thinking man is the worst enemy the Prince of Darkness can have; every time such an one announces himself, I doubt not there runs…
- Except by name, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter is little known out of Germany. The only thing connected with him, we think, that has reached this…
More Him Quotes
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi
- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because… — Chinua Achebe
- When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing… — Rowan Atkinson
- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
- Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. — Wystan Hugh Auden