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Thomas Carlyle Quotes - Page 10

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Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us?

Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us?

Logical, Effects

Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.148, Lulu.com

The All of Things is an infinite conjugation of the verb To do .

Verbs, Infinite

Thomas Carlyle (1851). “The French Revolution: A History”, p.383

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 creature, that makes him stammer.

Men, Anxiety, Excess

Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson, 17 November (1843)

Trust not the heart of that man for whom old clothes are not venerable.

Heart, Men, Clothes

1833-4 Sartor Resartus, bk.3, ch.6.

It is now almost my sole rule of life to clear myself of cants and formulas, as of poisonous Nessus shirts.

Shirts, Sole, Rules Of Life

Thomas Carlyle, Jane Welsh Carlyle (1953). “Letters to his wife”

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

Doubt, Certainty, Converting

They have their belief, these poor Tibet people, that Providence sends down always an Incarnation of Himself into every generation. At bottom some belief in a kind of Pope! At bottom still better, a belief that there is a Greatest Man; that he is discoverable; that, once discovered, we ought to treat him with an obedience which knows no bounds. This is the truth of Grand Lamaism; the "discoverability" is the only error here.

Buddhism, Men, Errors

"The Hero as Divinity. Odin. Paganism: Scandinavian Mythology". "On Heroes" by Thomas Carlyle, Chapter 1, ebooks.adelaide.edu.au. 1840.

In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by silence and by speech acting together, comes a double significance. In the symbol proper, what we can call a symbol, there is ever, more or less distinctly and directly, some embodiment and revelation of the Infinite; the Infinite is made to blend itself with the Finite, to stand visible, and as it were, attainable there. By symbols, accordingly, is man guided and commanded, made happy, made wretched.

Men, Silence, Acting

Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.276, CUP Archive

Heroes have gone out; quacks have come in; the reign of quacks has not ended with the nineteenth century. The sceptre is held with a firmer grasp; the empire has a wider boundary. We are all the slaves of quackery in one shape or another. Indeed, one portion of our being is always playing the successful quack to the other.

Hero, Successful, Reign

The scandalous bronze-lacquer age of hungry animalisms, spiritual impotences, and mendacities, will have to run its course, till the pit follow it.

Running, Spiritual, Age

I too acknowledge the all-out omnipotence of early culture and nature; hereby we have either a doddered dwarf-bush, or a high-towering, wide-shadowing tree! either a sick yellow cabbage, or an edible luxuriant green one. Of a truth, it is the duty of all men, especially of all philosophers, to note down with accuracy the characteristic circumstances of their education,--what furthered, what hindered, what in any way modified it.

Education, Men, Dwarves

All human souls, never so bedarkened, love light; light once kindled spreads till all is luminous.

Light, Soul, Spread

Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.44

To believe practically that the poor and luckless are here only as a nusiance to be abraded and abated, and in some permissable manner made away with, and swept out of sight, is not an amiable faith.

Believe, Sight, Poor

1839 Chartism, ch.3.

A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

Inspirational, Men, Blessing

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Work, Men, Cities

Thomas Carlyle (2016). “Past and Present: The Historian”, p.189, 北戴河出版

In idleness there is a perpetual despair.

Despair, Perpetual, Idleness

Every poet, be his outward lot what it may, finds himself born in the midst of prose; h e has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal.

Struggle, World, May

Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Complete in One Volume”, p.228

Labor is life: from the inmost heart of the worker rises his God-given force, the sacred celestial life-essence breathed into him by Almighty God!

Heart, Essence, Sacred

Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.113

I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.

Funny, Science, History

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

Imagination, Understanding, Matter

Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.50, Cambridge University Press

Terror itself, when once grown transcendental, becomes a kind of courage; as frost sufficiently intense, according to the poet Milton, will burn.

Frost, Kind, Intense

Thomas Carlyle (1841). “The French Revolution: A History”, p.185

The archenemy is the arch stupid!

Stupid, Arches, Conflict

It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.

Science, Math, Hands

Thomas Carlyle, Brendan King (1993). “The Sayings of Thomas Carlyle”, p.46, Lulu.com

The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.

Heart, Wind, Voice

Manhood begins when we have in any way made truce with Necessity; begins even when we have surrendered to Necessity, as the most part only do; but begins joyfully and hopefully only when we have reconciled ourselves to Necessity; and thus, in reality, triumphed over it, and felt that in Necessity we are free.

Reality, Way, Made

Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.295, Cambridge University Press

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