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Thomas Carlyle Quotes - Page 32

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We have chosen Mahomet not as the most eminent Prophet; but as the one we are freest to speak of. He is by no means the truest of Prophets; but I do esteem him a true one.

We have chosen Mahomet not as the most eminent Prophet; but as the one we are freest to speak of. He is by no means the truest of Prophets; but I do esteem him a true one.

Mean, Speak, Prophet

Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.120, Lulu.com

Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.

Past, Names, History

Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.36

The greatest fault is to be conscious of none.

Faults, Conscious

The nobleness of silence. The highest melody dwells only in silence,--the sphere melody, the melody of health.

Silence, Spheres, Melody

In every man's writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded.

Lying, Writing, Character

Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.212

A greater number of God's creatures believe in Mahomet's word at this hour than in any other word whatever. Are we to suppose that it was a miserable piece of spiritual legerdemain, this which so many creatures of the almighty have lived by and died by?

Spiritual, Believe, Numbers

Thomas Carlyle (2016). “Heroes and Hero Worship: The Historian”, p.39, 北戴河出版

The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin; whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper.

Mistake, Gold, Coins

Thomas Carlyle (1838). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh ; In Three Books ...”, p.129

Beautiful it is, and a gleam from the same eternal pole-star visible amid the destinies of men, that all talent, all intellect, is in the first plane moral. What a world were this otherwise!

Beautiful, Stars, Destiny

The civil authority, or that part of it which remained faithful to their trust and true to the ends of the covenant, did, in answer to their consciences, turn out a tyrant, in a way which the Christians in aftertimes will mention with honor, and all tyrants in the world look at with fear.

Christian, Loyalty, Tyrants

Hero-worship is the deepest root of all; the tap-root, from which in a great degree all the rest were nourished and grown . . . Worship of a Hero is transcendent admiration of a Great Man. I say great men are still admirable; I say there is, at bottom, nothing else admirable! No nobler feeling than this of admiration for one higher than himself dwells in the breast of men.

Hero, Men, Roots

Thomas Carlyle (1840). “On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History”, p.14, CUP Archive

All sorts of Heroes are intrinsically of the same material; that given a great soul, open to the Divine Significance of Life, then there is given a man fit to speak of this, to sing of this, to fight and work for this, in a great, victorious, enduring manner; there is given a Hero, -- the outward shape of whom will depend on the time and the environment he finds himself in.

Hero, Fighting, Men

Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.271

The graceful minuet-dance of fancy must give place to the toilsome, thorny pilgrimage of understanding. On the transition from the age of romance to that of science.

Science, Giving, Romance

Out of the lowest depths there is a path to the loftiest heights.

Depth, Height, Path

Thomas Carlyle (1871). “Works”, p.146

The English are a dumb people. They can do great acts, but not describe them.

People, Dumb, Dumb People

Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.93

When Pococke inquired of Grotius, where the proof was of that story of the pigeon, trained to pick peas from Mahomet's (Muhammad's) ear, and pass for an angel dictating to him? Grotius answered that there was no proof!

Islamic, Angel, Stories

Silence is the eternal duty of man.

Men, Silence, Duty

Thomas Carlyle (1866). “On the choice of books: the inaugural address of Thomas Carlyle”, p.79

Love not pleasure; love God. This is the Everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved.

Love, Pleasure, Contradiction

Thomas Carlyle (2016). “Sartor Resartus: The Historian”, p.141, 北戴河出版

Misery which, through long ages, had no spokesman, no helper, will now be its own helper and speak for itself.

Long, Age, Misery

Thomas Carlyle (1872). “The French Revolution: a History”, p.235

For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.

Men, Machinery, Producers

Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.22, Lulu.com

Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.

Facts, Inseparable, Knows

English and other Critical Essays Chartism Chapter II

What unknown seas of feeling lie in man, and will from time to time break through!

Lying, Men, Sea

Thomas Carlyle, James Anthony Froude (2012). “Reminiscences”, p.22, Cambridge University Press

Men worship the shows of great men; the most disbelieve that there is any reality of great men to worship.

Reality, Greatness, Men

Thomas Carlyle (1869). “Heroes and Hero-worship”, p.100

To a shower of gold most things are penetrable.

Money, Gold, Showers

Thomas Carlyle (2007). “The French Revolution: A History”, p.84, Modern Library

In the huge mass of evil as it rolls and swells, there is ever some good working toward deliverance and triumph.

Evil, Triumph, Deliverance

Thomas Carlyle (2007). “The French Revolution: A History”, p.10, Modern Library

Is not light grander than fire?

Fire, Light

Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Past and Present”, p.203

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