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Thomas Carlyle Quotes - Page 31

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It is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.

It is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.

Attitude, Names, Lucky

Clean undeniable right, clear undeniable might: either of these once ascertained puts an end to battle. All battle is a confused experiment to ascertain one and both of these.

Confused, Confusion, Confusing

A false man found a religion? Why, a false man cannot build a brick house!

Men, House, Bricks

Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.218

No man at bottom means injustice; it is always for some obscure distorted image of a right that he contends: an obscure image diffracted, exaggerated, in the wonderfulest way by natural dimness and selfishness; getting tenfold more diffracted by exasperation of contest, till at length it become all but irrecognis-able.

Mean, Men, Selfishness

Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.123, Cambridge University Press

No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.

Sympathy, Understanding, Tolerance

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

Love, Games, Darkness

That great mystery of TIME, were there no other; the illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean tide, on which we and all the Universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not: this is forever very literally a miracle; a thing to strike us dumb,-for we have no word to speak about it.

Time, Ocean, Rushing

Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.96, Lulu.com

In this world there is one godlike thing, the essence of all that was or ever will be of godlike in this world: the veneration done to Human Worth by the hearts of men.

Appreciation, Heart, Men

"The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle".

My whinstone house my castle is, I have my own four walls.

Wall, Home, House

Thomas Carlyle, Jane Welsh Carlyle (1977). “The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle: Jan. 1829-Sept. 1831”

A poor creature who has said or done nothing worth a serious man taking the trouble of remembering.

Funny, Men, Serious Man

No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first.

Book, Faces, Firsts

Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...”, p.167

Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest course.

Waiting, Revolution, Courses

Thomas Carlyle (1870). “Past and Present”, p.20

It is well said, in every sense, that a man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him.

Men, Religion, Facts

1841 On Heroes, Hero- Worship, and the Heroic,'The Hero as Divinity' (published 1897).

Roguery is thought by some to be cunning and laughable: it is neither; it is devilish.

Rogues, Cunning, Devilish

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

Funny Basketball, Originality, Clamour

Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.11, Cambridge University Press

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

Men, Judging, Quality

Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Swasey McKean, Charles Stearns Wheeler (1838). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays”, p.280

Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of a man; like light, it can give little or nothing, but at most may show what is given.

Tests, Merit, Fame

"The Works of Thomas Carlyle".

In every object there is inexhaustible meaning.

Objects

Thomas Carlyle (2016). “The French Revolution: The Historian”, p.11, 北戴河出版

I have no patience whatever with these gorilla damnifications of humanity.

Humanity, Gorillas, No Patience

O thou who art able to write a Book, which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted to do, envy not him whom they name City-builder, and inexpressibly pity him whom they name Conqueror or City-burner! Thou too art a Conqueror and Victor; but of the true sort, namely over the Devil: thou too hast built what will outlast all marble and metal, and be a wonder-bringing City of the Mind, a Temple and Seminary and Prophetic Mount, whereto all kindreds of the Earth will pilgrim.

Art, Book, Writing

Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.129, Univ of California Press

Close thy Byron ; open thy Goethe .

Byron

Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.42, Univ of California Press

No age seemed the age of romance to itself.

Romance, Age, Romanticism

I came hither [Craigenputtoch] solely with the design to simplify my way of life and to secure the independence through which I could be enabled to remain true to myself.

Design, Independence, Way

Thomas Carlyle (1866). “On the choice of books: the inaugural address of Thomas Carlyle”, p.19

Of our thinking it is but the upper surface that we shape into articulate thought; underneath the region of argument and conscious discourse lies the region of meditation.

Lying, Thinking, Meditation

John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle (2010). “Autobiography of J.S. Mill & on Liberty; Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh & Sir Walter Scott”, p.336, Cosimo, Inc.

In no time whatever can small critics entirely eradicate out of living men's hearts a certain altogether peculiar collar reverence for Great Men--genuine admiration, loyalty, adora-tion.

Loyalty, Appreciation, Heart

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