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Thomas Carlyle Quotes - Page 16

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Show me the man you honor; I know by that symptom, better than by any other, what kind of man you yourself are. For you show me there what your ideal of manhood is; what kind of man you long inexpressibly to be.

Show me the man you honor; I know by that symptom, better than by any other, what kind of man you yourself are. For you show me there what your ideal of manhood is; what kind of man you long inexpressibly to be.

Men, Long, Honor

Thomas Carlyle (1897). “History of Friedrich the Second: Called Frederick the Great”

For, strictly considered, what is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?

History, Products

"The Works of Thomas Carlyle".

I never heard tell of any clever man that came of entirely stupid people.

Clever, Stupid, Men

Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.181

A mind that has seen, and suffered, and done, speaks to us of what it has tried and conquered.

Mind, Done, Speak

1824 Goethe, vol.4,'Introduction to German Romance'.

The Great Man's sincerity is of the kind he cannot speak of, is not conscious of: nay, I suppose, he is conscious rather of insincerity; for what man can walk accurately by the law of truth for one day? No, the Great Man does not boast himself sincere, far from that; perhaps does not ask himself if he is so: I would say rather, his sincerity does not depend on himself; he cannot help being sincere!

Men, Law, One Day

Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.218

And there are Ben [Jonson] and William Shakespeare in wit-combat, sure enough; Ben bearing down like a mighty Spanish war-ship, fraught with all learning and artillery; Shakespeare whisking away from him - whisking right through him, athwart the big bulk and timbers of him; like a miraculous Celestial Light-ship, woven all of sheet-lightning and sunbeams!

War, Light, Ships

Man always worships something; always he sees the Infinite shadowed forth in something finite; and indeed can and must so see it in any finite thing, once tempt him well to fix his eyes thereon.

Eye, Men, Worship

Thomas Carlyle (1881). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.116

The actual well seen is ideal.

Idealism, Wells, Ideals

The whole past is the procession of the present.

Past, History, Whole

Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish.

Wise, Environmental, Foolish

Thought, true labor of any kind, highest virtue itself, is it not the daughter of Pain?

Daughter, Pain, Creative

Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.154, Lulu.com

Happy season of childhood! Kind Nature, that art to all a bountiful mother; that visitest the poor man's hut With auroral radiance; and for thy nursling hast provided a soft swathing of love and infinite hope wherein he waxes and slumbers, danced round by sweetest dreams!

Mother, Dream, Art

Thomas Carlyle (2016). “Sartor Resartus: The Historian”, p.66, 北戴河出版

'Genius' which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all.

Mean, Genius, Statistics

History of Frederick the Great bk. 4, ch. 3 (1858 - 1865).

Whoso has sixpence is sovereign (to the length of sixpence) over all men; commands cooks to feed him, philosophers to teach him, kings to mount guard over him,to the length of sixpence.

Kings, Men, Sovereign

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

Love not Pleasure; love God.

Pleasure Love, God Love, Pleasure

Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.26, CUP Archive

A battle is a terrible conjugation of the verb to kill: I kill, thou killest, he kills, we kill, they kill, all kill.

War, Battle, Verbs

I know so little about any history. How little do I know even about the history of myself.

Littles, Knows

Good Christian people, here lies for you an inestimable loan; take all heed thereof, in all carefulness, employ it: with high recompense, or else with heavy penalty, will it one day be required back.

Christian, Children, Lying

Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own.

Eye, Two, Independence

He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem.

Life, Writing, Heroic

Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Life of Friedrich Schiller (1825): Life of John Sterling (1851)”, p.37

Is not cant the materia prima of the devil, from which all falsehoods, imbecilities, abominations, body themselves, from which no true thing can come? For cant is itself the properly a double-distilled lie, the second power of a lie.

Lying, Devil, Body

Thomas Carlyle (1872). “The French Revolution: a History”, p.48

Over the times thou hast no power. . . . Solely over one man thou hast quite absolute power. Him redeem and make honest.

Honesty, Power, Men

Wealth of a man is the number of things which he loves and blesses which he is loved and blessed by.

Blessed, Men, Numbers

Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.455, Lulu.com

Habit and imitation--there is nothing more perennial in us than these two. They are the source of all working, and all apprenticeship, of all practice, and all learning, in this world.

Practice, Two, World

Thomas Carlyle (1862). “Past and Present: Chartism, and Sartor Resartus”, p.126

The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth.

Truth, Errors, Mass

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