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Thomas Carlyle Quotes - Page 11

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To me the Universe was all void of Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hostility; it was one huge, dead, immeasurable Steam-engine, rolling on, in its dead indifference, to grind me limb from limb. Oh vast gloomy,

To me the Universe was all void of Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hostility; it was one huge, dead, immeasurable Steam-engine, rolling on, in its dead indifference, to grind me limb from limb. Oh vast gloomy, solitary Golgotha, and Mill of Death! Why was the living banished thither companionless, conscious? Why, if there is no Devil; nay, unless the Devil is your God?

Life, Devil, Rolling

Thomas Carlyle (2009). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.230, ReadHowYouWant.com

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

Girl, Sarcastic, Humorous

Man is a tool-using animal.

Animal, Men, Tools

'Sartor Resartus' (1834) bk. 1, ch. 5

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.

Ideas, Humanity, Honor

Wise man was he who counselled that speculation should have free course, and look fearlessly towards all the thirty-two points of the compass, whithersoever and howsoever it listed.

Wise, Men, Should Have

Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.4, Cambridge University Press

Lies exist only to be extinguished.

Lying

The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable.

Spring, Past, Remembrance

Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Carlyle (1859). “Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: Including the Supplement to the Past Edition : with Elucidations”, p.9

"Love is not altogether a Delirium," says he elsewhere; "yet has it many points in common therewith."

Love, Delirium Tremens, Common

"Sartor Resartus: The Historian".

There are depths in man that go to the lowest hell, and heights that reach the highest heaven, for are not both heaven and hell made out of him, everlasting miracle and mystery that he is.

Men, Miracle, Heaven

Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans that of--the air!

Air, Sea, Land

Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...”, p.8

What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it

Memories, Lying, Heart

Thomas Carlyle (1841). “On Heroes, Hero-Worship,&the Heroic in History. Six Lectures. Reported with emendations and additions”, p.41

I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic.

Men, Way, Firsts

Thomas Carlyle (1872). “On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History”, p.42

One is weary of hearing about the omnipotence of money. I will say rather that, for a genuine man, it is not evil to be poor.

Men, Omnipotence, Evil

Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.309

All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught.

Greatness, Littles, Unconscious

Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Critical and miscellaneous essays, collected and republ”, p.146

There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in idleness alone there is perpetual despair.

Work, Men, Despair

Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Past and Present”, p.168

Superstition! that horrid incubus which dwelt in darkness, shunning the light, with all its racks, and poison chalices, and foul sleeping draughts, is passing away without return. Religion cannot pass away. The burning of a little straw may hide the stars of the sky; but the stars are there and will reappear.

Stars, Sleep, Light

Thomas Carlyle (1876). “The Carlyle Anthology”, p.253

Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together by the tie of sympathy.

Moving, Heart, Ties

Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film.

Science, Swim, Done

Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.96, Lulu.com

The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke; there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire.

Men, Fire, Suffering

Thomas Carlyle (1898). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.184

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

Lying, Book, Magic

On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic "The Hero as Man of Letters" (1841)

He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of virtuous living.

Wise, Teaching, Virtuous

Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...”, p.237

The stifled hum of midnight, when traffic has lain down to rest, and the chariot wheels of Vanity, still rolling here and there through distant streets, are bearing her to halls roofed in and lighted to the due pitch for her; and only vice and misery, to prowl or to moan like night birds, are abroad.

Night, Vanity, Bird

Thomas Carlyle (1869). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh : in Three Books”, p.21

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

Art, Mushrooms, Antiques

Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.80, Univ of California Press

Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious.

Men, Poetry, Existence

Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Critical & Miscellaneous Essays: Collected & Republished”, p.315

Produce, produce! Were it but the pitifulest, infinitesimal fraction of a product, produce it in God's name. 'Tis the utmost thou hast in thee? Out with it then! Up, up! Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy whole might.

Hands, Names, Might

Thomas Carlyle (1846). “On Heroes, Hero-worship, & the Heroic in History: Six Lectures ; Reported, with Emendations and Additions”

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