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What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.

What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.

Infinite, Ability

Just in ratio as knowledge increases, faith diminishes.

Knowledge, Ratios, Increase

A collection of books is the best of all universities.

Book, Collections, University

The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.

Time, Past, Wicked

Thomas Carlyle (1881). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.45

I think Scandinavian Paganism, to us here, is more interesting than any other. It is, for one thing, the latest; it continued in these regions of Europe till the eleventh century; 800 years ago the Norwegians were still worshipers of Odin. It is interesting also as the creed of our fathers; the men whose blood still runs in our veins, whom doubtless we still resemble in so many ways.

Running, Father, Men

Poverty, we may say, surrounds a man with ready-made barriers, which if they do mournfully gall and hamper, do at least prescribe for him, and force on him, a sort of course and goal; a safe and beaten, though a circuitous, course. A great part of his guidance is secure against fatal error, is withdrawn from his control. The rich, again, has his whole life to guide, without goal or barrier, save of his own choosing, and, tempted, is too likely to guide it ill.

Life, Men, Errors

Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.406, Cambridge University Press

Consider in fact, a body of six hundred and fifty-eight miscellaneous persons, set to consult about "business," with twenty-seven millions, mostly fools, assiduously listening to them, and checking and criticising them. Was there ever, since the world began, will there ever be till the world end, any "business" accomplished in these circumstances?

Eight, Government, Listening

Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.637, Lulu.com

Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet; not so the transition from the former to the latter.

Ignorance, Perfect, Transition

Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.217

To the wisest man, wide as is his vision. Nature remains of quite infinite depth, of quite infinite expansion and all experience thereof limits itself to some few computed centuries and measured square miles.

Men, Wisest Man, Squares

Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.302, CUP Archive

In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.

Dream, Time, Lying

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

With union grounded on falsehood and ordering us to speak and act lies, we will not have anything to do. Peace? A brutal lethargy is peaceable; the noisome is peaceable. We hope for a living peace, not a dead one!

Peace, Lying, Unions

Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.185, Lulu.com

Well might the ancients make silence a god; for it is the element of all godhood, infinitude, or transcendental greatness,--at once the source and the ocean wherein all such begins and ends.

Ocean, Greatness, Silence

Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.15

The aristocracy of feudal parchment has passed away with a mighty rushing, and now, by a natural course, we arrive at aristocracy of the money-bag.

Class, Rushing, Aristocracy

Thomas Carlyle (1839). “The French Revolution: A History”, p.390

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

Love, Cute, Happiness

Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Swasey McKean, Charles Stearns Wheeler (1838). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays”, p.18

The sincere alone can recognize sincerity.

Sincerity, Sincere

Thomas Carlyle (2016). “Heroes and Hero Worship: The Historian”, p.193, 北戴河出版

Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

Happiness, Greatness, Men

'Sartor Resartus' (1834) bk. 2, ch. 9

Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.

Science, Men, Thinking

Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Works”, p.20

Goethe's devil is a cultivated personage and acquainted with the modern sciences; sneers at witchcraft and the black art even while employing them, and doubts most things, nay, half disbelieves even his own existence.

Art, Black, Doubt

Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Miscellanies”, p.135

Thought will not work except in silence.

Silence

Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.174, Cambridge University Press

A very sea of thought; neither calm nor clear, if you will, yet wherein the toughest pearl-diver may dive to his utmost depth, and return not only with sea-wreck but with true orients.

Sea, Depth, Wrecks

Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.129, CUP Archive

History is the new poetry.

History

Piety does not mean that a man should make a sour face about things, and refuse to enjoy in moderation what his Maker has given.

Mean, Men, Doe

Thomas Carlyle (1866). “On the Choice of Books. The inaugural address of Thomas Carlyle, Lord Rector of the University of Edinburgh. Reprinted from “the Times,” with additional articles, a memoir of the author, etc”, p.30

The philosopher is he to whom the highest has descended, and the lowest has mounted up; who is the equal and kindly brother of all.

Brother, Philosophy, Philosopher

Thomas Carlyle (1850). “Past and Present: Chartism and Sartor Resartus”

How were friendship possible? In mutual devotedness to the good and true; otherwise impossible, except as armed neutrality or hollow commercial league. A man, be the heavens ever praised, is sufficient for himself; yet were ten men, united in love, capable of being and of doing what ten thousand singly would fail in. Infinite is the help man can yield to man.

Friendship, Men, Yield

Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.216, Univ of California Press

Whose school-hours are all the days and nights of our existence.

Education, School, Night

Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Life of Friedrich Schiller (1825): Life of John Sterling (1851)”, p.210

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