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Thomas Carlyle Quotes - Page 17

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Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.

Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.

Life, Book, Triviality

The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice.

Education, Practice, Mind

Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.190

A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.

Wages, Fairs

Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.273, Lulu.com

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Depth, Narrative, Height

The Persians are called the French of the East; we will call the Arabs Oriental Italians. A gifted noble people; a people of wildstrong feelings, and of iron restraint over these: the characteristic of noblemindedness, of genius.

Iron, People, Feelings

Thomas Carlyle (2016). “Heroes and Hero Worship: The Historian”, p.43, 北戴河出版

Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk.

Patience, Foolish, Parliament

Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.619, Lulu.com

It is no very good symptom, either of nations or individuals, that they deal much in vaticination. Happy men are full of the present, for its bounty suffices them; and wise men also, for its duties engage them. Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what clearly lies at hand.

Wise, Distance, Lying

Thomas Carlyle (1872*). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Burns. Life of Heyne. German playwrights. Voltaire. Novalis. Signs of the times. On history. Appendix: Jean Paul Friedrich Richter's review of Madame De Stael's 'Allemagne.' Schiller, Goethe and Madame De Stael”

A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.

Commitment, Progress, Half

Before philosophy can teach by Experience, the Philosophy has to be in readiness, the Experience must be gathered and intelligibly recorded.

Philosophy, Teach, Readiness

Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.57, CUP Archive

We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness.

Greatness

Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.23, Cambridge University Press

Laissez-faire, supply and demand-one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egotism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause-it is the gospel of despair.

Greed, Despair, Demand

Thomas Carlyle (1858). “Chartism: Past and Present. By Thomas Carlyle”, p.214

We are to remember what an umpire Nature is; what a greatness, composure of depth and tolerance there is in her. You take wheat to cast into the Earth's bosom; your wheat may be mixed with chaff, chopped straw, barn-sweepings, dust and all imaginable rubbish; no matter: you cast it into the kind just Earth; she grows the wheat, - the whole rubbish she silently absorbs, shrouds it in, says nothing of the rubbish.

Greatness, Umpires, Dust

Thomas Carlyle (1840). “On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History”, p.73, CUP Archive

Philosophy dwells aloft in the Temple of Science, the divinity of its inmost shrine; her dictates descend among men, but she herself descends not : whoso would behold her must climb with long and laborious effort, nay, still linger in the forecourt, till manifold trial have proved him worthy of admission into the interior solemnities.

Philosophy, Philosophical, Science

Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...”, p.32

In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the world's Priest; -- guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time.

Dark, Men, Fire

Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.302

What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me?

Art, Life And Love, Government

With respect to duels, indeed, I have my own ideas. Few things in this so surprising world strike me with more surprise. Two little visual spectra of men, hovering with insecure enough cohesion in the midst of the unfathomable, and to dissolve therein, at any rate, very soon, make pause at the distance of twelve paces asunder; whirl around, and simultaneously by the cunningest mechanism, explode one another into dissolution; and, offhand, become air, and non-extant--the little spitfires!

Distance, Insecure, Men

Thomas Carlyle (2015). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh”, p.161, The Floating Press

Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance; inseparable (for men) yet not hostile, only opposed.

Men, Evil, Shadow

History is a great dust heap.

Dust, History

Such is the world. Understand it, despise it, love it; cheerfully hold on thy way through it, with thy eye on highest loadstars!

Eye, World, Way

Thomas Carlyle (1848). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays”, p.78

If I had my way, the world would hear a pretty stern command - Exit Christ.

Atheism, World, Way

All human things do require to have an ideal in them; to have some soul in them.

Soul, Humans, Ideals

Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.109

I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less.

Honor, Atheism, Facts

Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson, April 29, 1836

Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles.

History, Imagination, Cogs

Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, with which all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite... Try him with half of a Universe, of an Omnipotence, he sets to quarreling with the proprietor of the other half, and declares himself the most maltreated of men. Always there is a black spot in our sunshine: It is even, as I said, the Shadow of Ourselves.

Sunshine, Greatness, Men

"Selections from Carlyle".

They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death are the allurements that act on the heart of man.

Heart, Men, Ease

Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.139, Lulu.com

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