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Thomas Carlyle Quotes - Page 26

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It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.

It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.

Men, Justice, Feelings

Chartism ch. 5 (1839)

A judicious man looks at Statistics, not to "get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted 'on him".

Ignorance, Men, Use

"Past and Present: Chartism".

Not our Logical, Mensurative faculty, but our Imaginative one is King over us; I might say, Priest and Prophet to lead us heavenward; or Magician and Wizard to lead us hellward.

Kings, War, Heaven

"Sartor Resartus: The Historian".

Variety is the condition of harmony.

Harmony, Variety, Conditions

How, without clothes, could we possess the master organ, soul's seat and true pineal gland of the body social--I mean a purse?

Mean, Clothes, Soul

Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.50, Univ of California Press

Friend, hast thou considered the "rugged, all-nourishing earth," as Sophocles well names her; how she feeds the sparrow on the housetop, much more her darling man?

Men, Names, Earth

Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.233, CUP Archive

Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt.

Mean, Intellectual, Doubt

Thomas Carlyle, A.H.R. Ball (2014). “Selections from Carlyle”, p.93, Cambridge University Press

A heavenly awe overshadowed and encompassed, as it still ought, and must, all earthly business whatsoever.

Awe, Heavenly, Stills

Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.67

The true eye for talent presupposes the true reverence for it.

Eye, Talent, Reverence

Thomas Carlyle (1858). “Chartism: Past and Present. By Thomas Carlyle”, p.94

Force, force, everywhere force; we ourselves a mysterious force in the centre of that. "There is not a leaf rotting on the highway but has Force in it: how else could it rot?" [As used in his time, by the word force, Carlyle means energy.]

Mean, Energy, Rotting

Life is a series of lessons that have to be understood.

Teaching, Learning, Lessons

We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.

Reading, May, Saws

Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...”, p.57

Every man is my superior in that I may learn from him.

Men, May, Every Man

The Bible is the truest utterance that ever came by alphabetic letters from the soul of man, through which, as through a window divinely opened, all men can look into the stillness of eternity, and discern in glimpses their far-distant, long-forgotten home.

Bible, Home, Biblical

He that has done nothing has known nothing.

Done, Action, Known

Thomas Carlyle (1847). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.166

Biography is the only true history.

Life, Biographies, My Biography

The end of Man is an Action, and not a Thought, though it were the noblest?

Life And Love, Men, Action

"Sartor Resartus: The Historian".

Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.

Hero, Men, Admiration

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

Thou fool! Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom; that idle crag thou sittest on is six thousand years of age.

Art, Nature, Years

Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.80, Univ of California Press

Learn to be good readers, which is perhaps a more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn to be discriminative in your reading; to read faithfully, and with your best attention, all kinds of things which you have a real interest in,--a real, not an imaginary,--and which you find to be really fit for what you are engaged in.

Real, Reading, Attention

Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.455, Cambridge University Press

A fundamental mistake to call vehemence and rigidity strength! A man is not strong who takes convulsion-fits; though six men cannot hold him then. He that can walk under the heaviest weight without staggering, he is the strong man . . . A man who cannot hold his peace, till the time come for speaking and acting, is no right man.

Strength, Strong, Mistake

Thomas Carlyle (1993). “On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History”, p.158, Univ of California Press

Let him who would move and convince others, be first moved and convinced himself.

Leadership, Moving, Want

"Essay on Burns".

A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.

Sadness, Space, Waste

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

Birthday, Real, Men

Sartor Resartus ch. 4 (1838)

The all importance of clothes has sprung up in the intellect of the dandy without effort, like an instinct of genius; he is inspired with clothes, a poet of clothes.

Sprung Up, Clothes, Effort

Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.166

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