Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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151. “Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.”

— Thomas Carlyle

152. “The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.”

— Thomas Carlyle

153. “The insignificant, the empty, is usually the loud; and after the manner of a drum, is louder even because of its emptiness.”

— Thomas Carlyle

154. “A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.”

— Thomas Carlyle

155. “Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?”

— Thomas Carlyle

156. “Coining “Dismal Science” as a nickname for Political Economy.”

— Thomas Carlyle

157. “There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.”

— Thomas Carlyle

158. “We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings.”

— Thomas Carlyle

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

— Thomas Carlyle

160. “Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.”

— Thomas Carlyle

161. “All human souls, never so bedarkened, love light; light once kindled spreads till all is luminous.”

— Thomas Carlyle

162. “Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices of great men, so it is likewise reformed by their moderation.”

— Thomas Carlyle

163. “All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale.”

— Thomas Carlyle

164. “All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.”

— Thomas Carlyle

165. “Debt is a bottomless sea.”

— Thomas Carlyle

166. “Metaphysics is the attempt of the mind to rise above the mind.”

— Thomas Carlyle

167. “Ceea ce devenim depinde in mare masura de ce citim.”

— Thomas Carlyle

168. “No man is born without ambitious worldly desires.”

— Thomas Carlyle

169. “The deadliest sin were the consciousness of no sin.”

— Thomas Carlyle

170. “Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.”

— Thomas Carlyle

171. “To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.”

— Thomas Carlyle

172. “Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.”

— Thomas Carlyle

173. “No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than himself, dwells in the breast of man. It is to this hour, and at all hours, the vivifying influence in man’s life.”

— Thomas Carlyle

174. “The deepest depth of vulgarism is that of setting up money as the ark of the covenant.”

— Thomas Carlyle

175. “The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once.”

— Thomas Carlyle

176. “Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.”

— Thomas Carlyle

177. “Life is a series of lessons that have to be understood.”

— Thomas Carlyle

178. “The true eye for talent presupposes the true reverence for it.”

— Thomas Carlyle

179. “Love is ever the beginning of knowledge as fire is of light.”

— Thomas Carlyle

180. “Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.”

— Thomas Carlyle

181. “Unity, agreement, is always silent or soft-voiced; it is only discord that loudly proclaims itself.”

— Thomas Carlyle

182. “The eye sees what it brings the power to see.”

— Thomas Carlyle

183. “The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke; there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire.”

— Thomas Carlyle

184. “Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.”

— Thomas Carlyle

185. “Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose; he has found it, and will follow it! How, as a free-flowing channel, dug and torn by noble force through the sour mudswamp of one’s existence, like an ever-deepening river there, it runs and flows.”

— Thomas Carlyle

186. “Necessity dispenseth with decorum.”

— Thomas Carlyle

187. “A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.”

— Thomas Carlyle

188. “Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in heaven.”

— Thomas Carlyle

189. “With stupidity and sound digestion, man may front much.”

— Thomas Carlyle

190. “The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.”

— Thomas Carlyle

191. “True friends, like ivy and the wall Both stand together, and together fall.”

— Thomas Carlyle

192. “He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.”

— Thomas Carlyle

193. “Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.”

— Thomas Carlyle

194. “The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world, – words with little meaning, actions with little worth, – one loves to reflect on the great Empire of Silence.”

— Thomas Carlyle

195. “I call the book of Job, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with the pen.”

— Thomas Carlyle

196. “Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.”

— Thomas Carlyle

197. “The healthy know not of their health, but only the sick: this is the physician’s aphorism, and applicable in a far wider sense than he gives it.”

— Thomas Carlyle

198. “That monstrous tuberosity of civilised life, the capital of England.”

— Thomas Carlyle

199. “All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble.”

— Thomas Carlyle

200. “Man is, and was always, a block-head and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and consider.”

— Thomas Carlyle