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Thomas Carlyle Quotes - Page 13

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Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

Science, Feelings, Artistic

The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.

Past, History, Whole

Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.99, CUP Archive

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

Funny, Humor, Blue

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

Kings, World, Persuasion

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Inspirational, Courage, Men

Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.123, Cambridge University Press

It is a fact which escapes no one, that, generally speaking, whoso is acquainted with his worth has but a little stock to cultivate acquaintance with.

Littles, Facts, Conceit

Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.7

The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,--words with little meaning, actions with little worth,--one loves to reflect on the great Empire of Silence.

Men, Silence, World

Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.246, Lulu.com

A true delineation of the smallest man is capable of interesting the greatest man.

Men, Interesting, Smallest

Thomas Carlyle (1851). “Works”, p.6

Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.

Important, Three, Journalism

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

History is the essence of innumerable biographies.

Essence, History, Legacy

Critical and Miscellaneous Essays "On History" (1838) See Thomas Carlyle 12

The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

Fear, Doubt, Unbelief

Thomas Carlyle (1831). “Sartor Resartus: The life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in three books: By Thomas Carlyle”, p.114

O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other.

Earth, Bitter, Poor

Thomas Carlyle (1838). “The French Revolution: A History”, p.177

At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed?

Two, World, Four

Thomas Carlyle, Chris Vanden Bossche (2002). “Historical Essays”, p.68, Univ of California Press

All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing.

Change, Reform, Moral

1872 Critical and Miscellaneous Essays,'Corn Law Rhymes'.

The universe is but one vast Symbol of God.

Diversity, Soul, Symbols

Thomas Carlyle (1831). “Sartor Resartus: The life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in three books: By Thomas Carlyle”, p.152

Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner.

War, Men, Technology

Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.356, CUP Archive

The choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule; the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and baseness, in most of the affairs of men. Slopshirts attainable three-halfpence cheaper by the ruin of living bodies and immortal souls.

Men, Stupidity, Soul

Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.29, Cambridge University Press

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Hope, People, Politics

Thomas Carlyle, Brendan King (1993). “The Sayings of Thomas Carlyle”, p.36, Lulu.com

No violent extreme endures.

Violence, Violent, Endure

Worship is transcendent wonder.

Worship, Wonder, Transcendent

'On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic' (1841) 'The Hero as Divinity'

That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.

Ignorance, Knowledge, Men

Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Sartor Resartus”, p.140

My books are friends that never fail me.

Book, Failing

No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.

Art, Disappointment, Book

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

Heart, Men, Vanity

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

Jesus, Greatness, Differences

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