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Thomas Carlyle Quotes - Page 33

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High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well bedded also in good Logic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge will come to lodge.

High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well bedded also in good Logic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge will come to lodge.

Air, Castles, Logic

Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh”, p.36

The mystical bond of brotherhood makes all men brothers.

Brother, Men, Mystical

We are not altogether here to tolerate. We are here to resist, to control and vanquish withal.

Leadership, Vanquish, Tolerate

Thomas Carlyle (2016). “Heroes and Hero Worship: The Historian”, p.134, 北戴河出版

The king is the man who can.

Kings, Men, He Man

Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists. It is in reality no longer expected or recognized as a virtue among men.

Reality, Men, Lost Friendship

Thomas Carlyle (1897). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete).”

Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul.

Wise, Soul, Intellectual

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

Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect!

Sweet, Cooking, Devil

Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.99

Thirty millions, mostly fools.

Funny, Humor, Insulting

A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.

Witty, Math, Science

Chartism ch. 2 (1839) See Disraeli 38

One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.

Music, March, Sensible

For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness to deny that this superior morality is properly rather an inferior criminality, produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion.

Love, Perfection, Being Thankful

Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.50, CUP Archive

If you will believe me, you who are young, yours is the golden season of life. As you have heard it called, so it verily is, the seed-time of life; in which, if you do not sow, or if you sow tares instead of wheat, you cannot expect to reap well afterwards, and you will arrive at little. And in the course of years when you come to look back, if you have not done what you have heard from your advisers,-and among many counsellors there is wisdom,-you will bitterly repent when it is too late.

Believe, Years, Training

John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle (2010). “Autobiography of J.S. Mill & on Liberty; Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh & Sir Walter Scott”, p.377, Cosimo, Inc.

Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself.

Philosophy, Eye, Looks

Thomas Carlyle (1831). “Sartor Resartus: The life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in three books: By Thomas Carlyle”, p.49

Have not I myself known five hundred living soldiers sabred into crows' meat for a piece of glazed cotton, which they call their flag; which had you sold it at any market-cross, would not have brought above three groschen?

War, Soldier, Crow

Thomas Carlyle (1908). “Sartor Resartus and Essays on Burns and Scott”

The Christian must be consumed by the conviction of the infinite beauty of holiness and the infinite damnability of sin.

Inspirational, Christian, Infinite Beauty

The man who cannot wonder, who does not habitually wonder (and worship), were he President of innumerable Royal Societies, and carried the whole Mecanique Celeste and Hegel's Philosophy, and the epitome of all Laboratories and Observatories with their results, in his single head, is but a Pair of Spectacles behind which there is no Eye. Let those who have Eyes look through him, then he may be useful.

Eye, Enthusiasm, Pairs

"Sartor Resartus: The Historian".

Are not our greatest men as good as lost? The men that walk daily among us, warming us, feeding us, walk shrouded in darkness, mere mythic men.

Men, Darkness, He Man

Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.75, Lulu.com

Experience takes dreadfully high school-wages, but he teaches like no other.

School, Experience, Wages

Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.293, Cambridge University Press

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

Sadness, Men, Misery

On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic "The Hero as Divinity" (1841)

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines of two everlasting empires, - Necessity and Free Will.

Freedom, Light, Two

"Essays on Goethe (Goethe's Works)". Book by Thomas Carlyle, 1888.

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