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Thomas Carlyle Quotes - Page 24

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Contented saturnine human figures, a dozen or so of them, sitting around a large long table...Perfect equality is to be the rule; no rising or notice taken when anybody enters or leaves. Let the entering man take his

Contented saturnine human figures, a dozen or so of them, sitting around a large long table...Perfect equality is to be the rule; no rising or notice taken when anybody enters or leaves. Let the entering man take his place and pipe, without obligatory remarks; if he cannot smoke...let him at least affect to do so, and not ruffle the established stream of things.

Taken, Men, Perfect

Is not every meanest day the confluence of two eternities?

Two, Eternity, Confluence

"The French Revolution, A History" by Thomas Carlyle, part I, book VI, chapter V., 1837.

Coining "Dismal Science" as a nickname for Political Economy

Political, Nicknames, Economics

A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.

Funny, Hands, Insanity

The deadliest sin were the consciousness of no sin

Consciousness, Sin

Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a taxing-machine; to the contented, a machine for securing property. Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable.

Father, Party, Eye

Thomas Carlyle, A.H.R. Ball (2014). “Selections from Carlyle”, p.111, Cambridge University Press

On the whole, I would bid you stand up to your work, whatever it may be, and not be afraid of it; not in sorrows or contradictions to yield, but to push on towards the goal.

Yield, Goal, Training

Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.480, Cambridge University Press

Does not every true man feel that he is himself made higher by doing reverence to what is really above him?

Men, Doe, Worship

Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.100, Lulu.com

Properly speaking, all true work is religion.

Work, Religion

Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.115

O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create, know this for a truth: the thing thou seekest is already here, "here or nowhere," couldst thou only see.

Powerful, Kingdoms, Knows

Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.145, Univ of California Press

To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow.

Mean, Eye, Yellow

Thomas Carlyle (1872). “On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History”, p.87

Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed this His universe to go.

Law, Wealth, Almighty

Thomas Carlyle (1858). “Chartism: Past and Present. By Thomas Carlyle”, p.96

Song is the heroics of speech.

Song, Speech

Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices of great men, so it is likewise reformed by their moderation.

Passion, Men, Cities

Pain was not given thee merely to be miserable under; learn from it, turn it to account.

Pain, Miserable, Given

Is there no God, then, but at best an absentee God, sitting idle, ever since the first Sabbath, at the outside of his Universe?

God, Sitting, Firsts

Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.99

Pin thy faith to no man's sleeve. Hast thou not two eyes of thy own?

Faith, Eye, Men

Thomas Carlyle (1881). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.329

Nothing ever happens but once in all this world. What I do now I do once for all. It is over and gone, with all its eternity of solemn meaning.

Events, Gone, World

And man's little Life has Duties that are great, that are alone great, and go up to Heaven and down to Hell.

Heaven, Littles, Hell

"Past and Present and Chartism".

All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible.

History, Inarticulate

Thomas Carlyle (1901). “Carlyle on Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History”

There is no permanent place in this universe for evil... Evil may hide behind this fallacy and that, but it will be hunted from fallacy to fallacy until there is no more fallacy for it to hide behind.

Evil, May, Fallacy

Social Science, is not a 'gay science' but rueful, which finds the secret of this universe in 'supply and demand' and reduces the duty of human governors to that of letting men alone. Not a 'gay science', no, a dreary, desolate, and indeed quite abject and distressing one; what we might call, the dismal science

Ignorance, Gay, Men

Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.472, Lulu.com

It is meritorious to insist on forms; religion and all else naturally clothes itself in forms. Everywhere the formed world is the only habitable one.

Clothes, Earth, World

Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.339

Why did not somebody teach me the constellations, and make me at home in the starry heavens, which are always overhead, and which I don't half know to this day?

Home, Science, Heaven

Freedom is the one purport, wisely aimed at, or unwisely, of all man's struggles, toilings and sufferings, in this earth.

Freedom, Struggle, Men

Thomas Carlyle (1872). “The French Revolution: a History”, p.160

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