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Thomas Carlyle Quotes - Page 29

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There is but one temple in this Universe: The Body. We speak to God whenever we lay our hands upon it.

There is but one temple in this Universe: The Body. We speak to God whenever we lay our hands upon it.

Philosophy, Hands, Medicine

Ever, as before, does Madness remain a mysterious-terrific, altogether infernal boiling-up of the Nether Chaotic Deep, through this fair-painted Vision of Creation, which swims thereon, which we name the Real.

Real, Names, Swim

Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.159

The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor.

Glowing, Language, Metaphor

Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.79

Society is founded on hero-worship.

Hero, Worship, Hero Worship

Thomas Carlyle (1869). “Heroes and Hero-worship”, p.15

God gave you that gifted tongue of yours, and set it between your teeth, to make known your true meaning to us, not to be rattled like a muffin man's bell.

Men, Teeth, Bells

The errors of a wise man are literally more instructive than the truths of a fool. The wise man travels in lofty, far-seeing regions; the fool in low-lying, high-fenced lanes; retracing the footsteps of the former, to discover where he diviated, whole provinces of the universe are laid open to us; in the path of the latter, granting even that he has not deviated at all, little is laid open to us but two wheel-ruts and two hedges.

Wise, Lying, Science

Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.4, Cambridge University Press

A fair day's wage for a fair day's work": it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man.

Men, Demand, Made

Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.16

No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than himself, dwells in the breast of man. It is to this hour, and at all hours, the vivifying influence in man's life.

Respect, Men, Feelings

Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Sartor Resartus”, p.193

There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man.

Men, Poetry, World

Critical and Miscellaneous Essays "Sir Walter Scott" (1838)

Obedience is our universal duty and destiny; wherein whoso will not bend must break; too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know that "would," in this world of ours, is a mere zero to "should," and for most part as the smallest of fractions even to "shall.

Zero, Destiny, World

Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.192, CUP Archive

In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.

Knowledge, Mean, Eye

Thomas Carlyle, Marianna De_Marinis (1851). “The French Revolution a History by Thomas Carlyle: The bastille”, p.8

Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker in the world?

Parent, Events, World

Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.106, Lulu.com

There is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair.

Work, Men

"Past and Present".

Man's earthly interests,'are all hooked and buttoned together, and held up, by Clothes.

Men, Clothes, Together

1833-4 Sartor Resartus, bk.1, ch.8.

I want to meet my God awake.

Death, Want, Awake

History is the distillation of rumour.

History, Rumours, Distillation

Shakespeare says, we are creatures that look before and after; the more surprising that we do not look around a little, and see what is passing under our very eyes.

Eye, Looks, Littles

Sartor Resartus Book I, Chapter 1

Generations are as the days of toilsome mankind; death and birth are the vesper and the matin bells that summon mankind to sleep and to rise refreshed for new advancement. What the father has made, the son can make and enjoy; but has also work of his own appointed him. Thus all things wax and roll onwards: arts, establishments, opinions, nothing is ever completed, but ever completing.

Art, Father, Sleep

Thomas Carlyle (2016). “Sartor Resartus: The Historian”, p.180, 北戴河出版

A man ought to inquire and find out what he really and truly has an appetite for; what suits his constitution; and that, doctors tell him, is the very thing he ought to have in general. And so with books.

Book, Men, Doctors

Thomas Carlyle (1866). “On the choice of books: the inaugural address of Thomas Carlyle”, p.57

Wonderful Force of Public Opinion! We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes; follow the traffic it bids us, realize the sum of money, the degree of influence it expects of us, or we shall be lightly esteemed; certain mouthfuls of articulate wind will be blown at us, and this what mortal courage can front?

Wind, Degrees, Public Opinion

Thomas Carlyle (1855). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: By Thomas Carlyle”, p.195

How indestructibly the good grows, and propagates itself, even among the weedy entanglements of evil.

Evil, Goodness, Entanglement

Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.76, Univ of California Press

What a wretched thing is all fame! A renown of the highest sort endures, say, for two thousand years. And then? Why, then, a fathomless eternity swallows it. Work for eternity; not the meagre rhetorical eternity of the periodical critics, but for the real eternity wherein dwelleth the Divine.

Real, Years, Two

A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up.

Spring, Editors, Able

Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The French Revolution: A History”, p.205

Money will buy money's worth; but the thing men call fame, what is it?

Men, Fame

Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Critical and miscellaneous essays, collected and republ”, p.157

No man is born without ambitious worldly desires.

Ambition, Men, Desire

Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...”, p.236

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