Quotes by
Thomas Carlyle |
1795-1881 , English writer
Scottish essayist, satirist, and historian, philosopher, mathematician, whose work was hugely influential during the Victorian era. His book The French Revolution: A History (1837) was the inspiration for Charles Dickens’ novel A Tale of Two Cities (1859), and remains popular today.
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Quotations
| • | Go as far as you can see and you will see further. 4 |
| • | Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state. |
| • | The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear. |
| • | He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything. |
| • | Endurance is patience concentrated. |
| • | Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do. |
| • | It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see. |
| • | No pressure, no diamonds. |
| • | He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem. |
| • | The three great elements of modern civilization, gunpowder, printing, and the Protestant religion. |
| • | A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility. |
| • | Music is well said to be the speech of angels |
| • | All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught. |
| • | The Book had in a high degree excited us to self-activity, which is the best effect of any book. |
| • | No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offense. |
| • | A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men. |
| • | The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then. |
| • | Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time. |
| • | No person is important enough to make me angry. |
| • | It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe. |
| • | I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom. |
| • | Violence does even justice unjustly. |
| • | A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder. |
| • | Teach a parrot the terms “supply and demand”, and you've got an economist. |
| • | Silence is more eloquent than words. |
| • | Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases. |
| • | To a shower of gold most things are penetrable. |
| • | He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide. |
| • | One monster there is in the world, the idle man. |
| • | If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown. |
| • | The purpose of man is in action not thought. |
| • | In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment. |
| • | Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious. |
| • | Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer. |
| • | Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding. |
| • | A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. |
| • | Intellect is the soul of man, the only immortal part of him. |
| • | Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world. |
| • | What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books. |
| • | My books are friends that never fail me. |
| • | Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. |
| • | A person usually has two reasons for doing something, a good reason and the real reason. |
| • | No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. |
| • | Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all. |
| • | It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the center of gravity of the universe. |
| • | Habit is the deepest law of human nature. |
| • | Democracy will prevail when men believe the vote of Judas as good as that of Jesus Christ. |
