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Thomas Carlyle Quotes - Page 23

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Unity, agreement, is always silent or soft-voiced; it is only discord that loudly proclaims itself.

Unity, agreement, is always silent or soft-voiced; it is only discord that loudly proclaims itself.

Agreement, Unity, Silent

Thomas Carlyle (1847). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.381

Democracy will itself accomplish the salutary universal change from delusive to real, and make a new blessed world of us by and by.

Real, Blessed, Democracy

Thomas Carlyle (1870). “Latter-day Pamphlets”, p.18, London : Chapman and Hall

What the light of your mind, which is the direct inspiration of the Almighty, pronounces incredible, that, in God's name, leave uncredited. At your peril do not try believing that!

Believe, Inspiration, Light

Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Life of Friedrich Schiller (1825): Life of John Sterling (1851)”, p.236

Hunger whets everything, especially Suspicion and Indignation.

Hunger, Suspicion, Indignation

Thomas Carlyle (1837). “Collected Works”, p.304

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.

Book, Done, Professors

There must be a new world if there is to be any world at all!... These days of universal death must be days of universal new birth, if the ruin is not to be total and final! It is Time to make the dullest man consider; and ask himself, Whence he came? Whither he is bound?

Men, Finals, World

Thomas Carlyle (1870). “Latter-day Pamphlets”, p.4, London : Chapman and Hall

Venerable to me is the hard hand,--crooked, coarse,--wherein, notwithstanding, lies a cunning virtue, indispensably royal as of the sceptre of the planet.

Lying, Hands, Royal

Heroes, it would seem, exist always and a certain worship of them.

Hero, Worship, Certain

Thomas Carlyle (1840). “On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History”, p.216

The greatest of all heroes is One--whom we do not name here! Let sacred silence meditate that sacred matter; you will find it the ultimate perfection of a principle extant throughout man's whole history on earth.

Hero, Men, Names

Thomas Carlyle (1846). “On Heroes, Hero-worship, & the Heroic in History: Six Lectures ; Reported, with Emendations and Additions”, p.10

Without oblivion, there is no remembrance possible. When both oblivion and memory are wise, when the general soul of man is clear, melodious, true, there may come a modern Iliad as memorial of the Past.

Wise, Memories, Past

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

The healthy know not of their health, but only the sick: this is the physician's aphorism, and applicable in a far wider sense than he gives it.

Health, Giving, Sick

Thomas Carlyle (1881). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.1

The situation that has not its duty, its ideal, was never yet occupied by man. Yes, here, in this poor, miserable, hampered, despicable actual, wherein thou even now standest, here or nowhere is thy ideal; work it out therefrom, and, working, believe, live, be free. Fool! the ideal is in thyself.

Believe, Men, Fool

Thomas Carlyle (1871). “Works”, p.135

Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet.

Lord, Planets, Written

O Time! Time! how it brings forth and devours! And the roaring flood of existence rushes on forever similar, forever changing!

Time, Forever, Roaring

Thomas Carlyle, Charles Richard Sanders, Jane Welsh Carlyle (1973). “The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle: October 1833-december 1834”, Duke University Press Books

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

Art, Silence, Speech

Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.20, CUP Archive

Alas! we know that ideals can never be completely embodied in practice. Ideals must ever lie a great way off--and we will thankfully content ourselves with any not intolerable approximation thereto! Let no man, as Schiller says, too querulously "measure by a scale of perfection the meager product of reality" in this poor world of ours.

Lying, Reality, Men

Thomas Carlyle (1840). “On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History”, p.234, CUP Archive

At the bottom there is no perfect history; there is none such conceivable. All past centuries have rotted down, and gone confusedly dumb and quiet.

Past, History, Perfect

Thomas Carlyle, Oliver Cromwell, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.7, Cambridge University Press

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance.

Past, Endurance, Cheerfulness

He who first shortened the labor of Copyists by device of Movable Types was disbanding hired armies and cashiering most Kings and Senates, and creating a whole new Democratic world: he had invented the Art of printing.

Art, Kings, Army

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

Considering the multitude of mortals that handle the pen in these days, and can mostly spell, and write without glaring violations of grammar, the question naturally arises: How is it, then, that no work proceeds from them, bearing any stamp of authenticity and permanence; of worth for more than one day?

Writing, One Day, Authenticity

Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.63

The goal of yesterday will be our starting-point to-morrow.

Yesterday, Goal, Starting

Reform, like charity, must begin at home.

Home, Reform, Charity

Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.316, Cambridge University Press

Nature admits no lie.

Nature, Lying

1850 Latter-Day Pamphlets, no.5.

All comes out even at the end of the day.

The End Of The Day, Ends

The mystery of a person, indeed, is ever divine to him that has a sense for the godlike.

Spirituality, Mystery, Divine

Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.214, CUP Archive

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