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Thomas Carlyle Quotes - Page 20

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He that will not work according to his faculty, let him perish according to his necessity: there is no law juster than that.

He that will not work according to his faculty, let him perish according to his necessity: there is no law juster than that.

Work, Law, Faculty

Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.132, Cambridge University Press

In a certain sense all men are historians.

Men, History, Certain

Thomas Carlyle (1855). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: By Thomas Carlyle”, p.220

Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.

Talking, Unhappy, Tape

Describing himself, in 'Latter-Day Pamphlets' (1850) 'The Present Time'

In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by Silence and by Speech acting together, comes a double significance.

Silence, Acting, Together

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

The infinite, absolute character of Virtue has passed into a finite, conditional one; it is no longer a worship of the Beautiful and Good; but a calculation of the Profitable.

Beautiful, Character, Worship

Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.23, Lulu.com

We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings.

Money, Cash, Forgotten

Thomas Carlyle (1848). “Past and Present: Chartism, and Sartor Resartus”, p.146

In private life I never knew anyone interfere with other people's disputes but he heartily repented of it.

Life, People, Disputes

Give us, O give us the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation what it may, he is equal to any of those who follow the same pursuit in silent sullenness. He will do more in the same time . . . he will do it better . . . he will persevere longer. One is scarcely sensible to fatigue while he marches to music. The very stars are said to make harmony as they revolve in their spheres.

Time, Stars, Work

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

Lonely, Loneliness, Men

Thomas Carlyle (1870). “Past and Present”, p.381

Armed Soldier, terrible as Death, relentless as Doom; doing God's judgement on the Enemies of God. It is a phenomenon not of joyful nature; no, but of awful, to be looked at with pious terror and awe.

History, Judgement, Soldier

Thomas Carlyle (1871). “Works”, p.144

Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.

Men, May, Tests

Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...”, p.75

He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide.

Secret, Luck, Should

"The French Revolution: The Historian".

A background of wrath, which can be stirred up to the murderous infernal pitch, does lie in every man.

Lying, Anger, Men

Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Critical and miscellaneous essays, collected and republ”, p.315

The Builder of this Universe was wise, He plann'd all souls, all systems, planets, particles: The Plan He shap'd all Worlds and Æons by, Was-Heavens!-was thy small Nine-and-thirty Articles!

Wise, Science, Heaven

Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.341, Lulu.com

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Laughter, Men, Keys

Thomas Carlyle (1833). “Fraser's Magazine”, p.592

All that a university or final highest school. can do for us is still but what the first school began doing--teach us to read. We learn to read in various languages, in various sciences; we learn the alphabet and letters of all manner of books. But the place where we are to get knowledge, even theoretic knowledge, is the books themselves. It depends on what we read, after all manner of professors have done their best for us. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Education, Book, School

Thomas Carlyle (1852). “On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History: Six Lectures, Reported, with Emendations and Additions”, p.255

Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.

Real, Work, Men

Thomas Carlyle (1848). “Past and Present: Chartism. New Ed., Complete in One Volume”, p.197

Great souls are always loyally submissive, reverent to what is over them: only small mean souls are otherwise.

Respect, Mean, Soul

Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.215, Lulu.com

Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain-tricks of custom: but of all of these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous, by simple repetition, ceases to be miraculous.

Simple, Knack, Illusion

Thomas Carlyle (1871). “Works”, p.179

If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin.

Religious, Men, Religion

Letter to Thomas Chalmers, October 11, 1841.

Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.

Errors, Practice, Together

Thomas Carlyle (1881). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.162

Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour, but then centuries to try it in, they are found to be identical.

Trying, Vices, Might

Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.158

Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.

Wise, Eye, History

Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: With Elucidations”, p.6

The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity.

Inspirational, Wise, Clever

"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 617), 1895.

Man is, and was always, a block-head and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and consider.

Block, Men, Thinking

Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.163, CUP Archive

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