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Thomas Carlyle Quotes - Page 9

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Be not a slave of words.

Be not a slave of words.

Advice, Slave

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

Men, Uprising, Rebel

Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.140

Rest is for the dead.

Death, Dying

Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to heart: "Do the duty which lies nearest to thee," which thou know to be a duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.

Lying, Heart, Light

1833-4 Sartor Resartus, bk.2, ch.9.

Time is the silent, never-resting thing ... rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing oceantide, on which we and all the universe swim.

Rushing, Swim, Rolling

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Time, Lying, Silence

'Critical and Miscellaneous Essays' (1838) 'Sir Walter Scott'.

Courtesy is the due of man to man; not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes.

Men, Clothes, Suits

Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.154, Cambridge University Press

No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.

Victory, Doe, Shows

No mortal has a right to wag his tongue, much less to wag his pen, without saying something.

Wags, Tongue, Pens

Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.17

Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him.

Men, Shadow, Speech

Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.90

Time has only a relative existence.

Time, Existence, Relative

Thomas Carlyle (2012). “The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872”, p.31, tredition

The vulgarity of inanimate things requires time to get accustomed to; but living, breathing, bustling, plotting, planning, human vulgarity is a species of moral ipecacuanha, enough to destroy any comfort.

Breathing, Vulgarity Is, Comfort

There are remedies for all things but death.

Death, Remedy, All Things

Thomas Carlyle (1858). “The French Revolution: A History”, p.81

We are to take no counsel with flesh and blood; give ear to no vain cavils, vain sorrows and wishes; to know that we know nothing, that the worst and cruelest to our eyes is not what it seems, that we have to receive whatsoever befalls us as sent from God above, and say, "It is good and wise,--God is great! Though He slay me, yet I trust in Him." Islam means, in its way, denial of self. This is yet the highest wisdom that heaven has revealed to our earth.

Wise, Mean, Eye

Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.

Time, Silence, Speech

Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.162, Univ of California Press

Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man.

Wisdom, Men, Infinite

John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle (2010). “Autobiography of J.S. Mill & on Liberty; Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh & Sir Walter Scott”, p.390, Cosimo, Inc.

Leaders: Captains of industry.

Leadership, Captains, Industry

Past and Present title of bk. 4, ch. 4 (1843)

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

Hope, Men, World

Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.121, Univ of California Press

Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union-bond of man to man. Cash never yet paid one man fully his deserts to another; nor could it, nor can it, now or henceforth to the end of the world.

Money, Men, Years

Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.109

The best lesson which we get from the tragedy of Karbala is that Husain and his companions were rigid believers in God. They illustrated that the numerical superiority does not count when it comes to the truth and the falsehood. The victory of Husain, despite his minority, marvels me!

Intellectual, Victory, Tragedy

To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.

Song, Should Have, Victory

Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.7

A star is beautiful; it affords pleasure, not from what it is to do, or to give, but simply by being what it is. It befits the heavens; it has congruity with the mighty space in which it dwells. It has repose; no force disturbs its eternal peace. It has freedom; no obstruction lies between it and infinity.

Beautiful, Stars, Lying

Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path .. A thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do .. To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.

Change, Men, Path

Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.411, Lulu.com

In our wide world there is but one altogether fatal personage, the dunce,--he that speaks irrationally, that sees not, and yet thinks he sees.

Thinking, Stupidity, World

Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.286

All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!

Music, Song, Essence

Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.247

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