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Thomas Carlyle Quotes - Page 25

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Great men are the inspired texts of that divine Book of Revelations, whereof a chapter is completed from epoch to epoch, and by some named History.

Great men are the inspired texts of that divine Book of Revelations, whereof a chapter is completed from epoch to epoch, and by some named History.

Book, Men, History

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

Except by name, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter is little known out of Germany. The only thing connected with him, we think, that has reached this country is his saying,-imported by Madame de Staël, and thankfully pocketed by most newspaper critics,-"Providence has given to the French the empire of the land; to the English that of the sea; to the Germans that of-the air!" Richter: German humorist & prose writer.

Country, Thinking, Air

Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.5

The meaning of song goes deep. Who in logical words can explain the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite, and lets us for a moment gaze into that!

Music, Song, Speech

Thomas Carlyle (1846). “On Heroes, Hero-worship, & the Heroic in History: Six Lectures ; Reported, with Emendations and Additions”, p.74

No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes towards it. There they are gathered together, blinking up to it with such vision as they have, scanning it from afar, hovering round it this way and that, each cunningly endeavoring, by all arts, to catch some reflex of it in the little mirror of himself.

Art, Character, Men

Thomas Carlyle (1839). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays”, p.2

Experience of actual fact either teaches fools or abolishes them.

Education, Science, Fool

To the vulgar eye, few things are wonderful that are not distant

Eye, Wonderful, Vulgar

Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.259, Cambridge University Press

Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrapping of traditions, hearsay's, and mere words.

Tradition, Form, Notion

What are your historical Facts still more your biographical Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts

Men, Historical, Together

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

It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.

History, Creeds, Poetry Is

Thomas Carlyle (2007). “The French Revolution: A History”, p.17, Modern Library

Look around you. Your world-hosts are all in mutiny, in confusion, destitution; on the eve of fiery wreck and madness! They will not march farther for you, on the sixpence a day and supply-demand principle; they will not; nor ought they, nor can they. Ye shall reduce them to order, begin reducing them. to order, to just subordination; noble loyalty in return for noble guidance. Their souls are driven nigh mad; let yours be sane and ever saner.

Loyalty, Order, Mad

Society is founded upon Cloth.

Thomas Carlyle (1831). “Sartor Resartus: The life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in three books: By Thomas Carlyle”, p.34

History is philosophy teaching by experience.

Philosophy, Teaching

1838 Critical and Miscellaneous Essays,'History'.

The greatest mistake is to imagine that we never err.

Mistake, Imagine, Imagine That

Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?

Men, Civilization, Savages

Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The French revolution. A history”, p.210

Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things. A sad case for him when all that he can manage to believe is something he can button in his pocket, and with one or the other organ eat and digest! Lower than that he will not get.

Believe, Men, Soul

Thomas Carlyle, Edwin Markham (1842). “On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History: Six Lectures, Reported, with Emendations and Additions”, p.215

But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Happiness, Simple, Rights

O Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry each a future Ghost within him; but are, in very deed, Ghosts!

Philosophy, Philosophical, Heaven

"Sartor Resartus: The Historian".

We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud "electricity," and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of glass and silk: but what is it? What made it? Whence comes it? Whither goes it?

Science, Fire, Clouds

Thomas Carlyle (1846). “On Heroes, Hero-worship, & the Heroic in History: Six Lectures ; Reported, with Emendations and Additions”, p.7

What, in the devil's name, is the use of respectability, with never so many gigs and silver spoons, if thou inwardly art the pitifulness of all men?

Respect, Art, Men

Music... a kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads to the edge of the Infinite.

Inspiration, Speech, Kind

Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Works”, p.78

Statistics is a science which ought to be honourable, the basis of many most important sciences; but it is not to be carried on by steam, this science, any more than others are; a wise head is requisite for carrying it on.

Wise, Science, Important

Critical and Miscellaneous Essays Chartism, II

The greatest security against sin is to be shocked at its presence.

Inspiration, Sin, Shocked

Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

Reality, Fiction, Ifs

Thomas Carlyle, A.H.R. Ball (2014). “The French Revolution”, p.13, Cambridge University Press

Great men are the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain.

Inspirational, Men, Patterns

Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.91, Lulu.com

The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.

Laughter, Laughing, Deception

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