Thomas Carlyle Quotes - Page 27

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• History is philosophy teaching by experience.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Philosophy, Teaching

  1838 Critical and Miscellaneous Essays,'History'.

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• What, in the devil's name, is the use of respectability, with never so many gigs and silver spoons, if thou inwardly art the pitifulness of all men?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Respect, Art, Men

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• Our works are the mirror wherein the spirit first sees its natural lineaments. Hence, too, the folly of that impossible precept, Know theyself; till it be translated into this partially possible one, know what thou canst work at.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Success, Work

  Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.123, Univ of California Press

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• It is meritorious to insist on forms; religion and all else naturally clothes itself in forms. Everywhere the formed world is the only habitable one.

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  Clothes, Earth, World

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.339

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• A heavenly awe overshadowed and encompassed, as it still ought, and must, all earthly business whatsoever.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Awe, Heavenly, Stills

  Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.67

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• Experience of actual fact either teaches fools or abolishes them.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Education, Science, Fool

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• Force, force, everywhere force; we ourselves a mysterious force in the centre of that. "There is not a leaf rotting on the highway but has Force in it: how else could it rot?" [As used in his time, by the word force, Carlyle means energy.]

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mean, Energy, Rotting

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• But deepest of all illusory Appearances, for hiding Wonder, as for many other ends, are your two grand fundamental world-enveloping Appearances, SPACE and TIME. These, as spun and woven for us from before Birth itself, to clothe our celestial ME for dwelling here, and yet to blind it, lie all-embracing, as the universal canvas, or warp and woof, whereby all minor Illusions, in this Phantasm Existence, weave and paint themselves. In vain, while here on Earth, shall you endeavor to strip them off; you can, at best, but rend them asunder for moments, and look through.

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  Lying, Two, Dwelling

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.304, CUP Archive

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• There is no permanent place in this universe for evil... Evil may hide behind this fallacy and that, but it will be hunted from fallacy to fallacy until there is no more fallacy for it to hide behind.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Evil, May, Fallacy

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• Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrapping of traditions, hearsay's, and mere words.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Tradition, Form, Notion

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• O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create, know this for a truth: the thing thou seekest is already here, "here or nowhere," couldst thou only see.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Powerful, Kingdoms, Knows

  Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.145, Univ of California Press

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Agreement, Unity, Silent

  Thomas Carlyle (1847). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.381

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• Great souls are always loyally submissive, reverent to what is over them: only small mean souls are otherwise.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Respect, Mean, Soul

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.215, Lulu.com

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• Friend, hast thou considered the "rugged, all-nourishing earth," as Sophocles well names her; how she feeds the sparrow on the housetop, much more her darling man?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Names, Earth

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.233, CUP Archive

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• He that has done nothing has known nothing.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Done, Action, Known

  Thomas Carlyle (1847). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.166

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• Biography is the only true history.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Biographies, My Biography

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• The end of Man is an Action, and not a Thought, though it were the noblest?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life And Love, Men, Action

  "Sartor Resartus: The Historian".

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• Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Hero, Men, Admiration

  Thomas Carlyle (1846). “On Heroes, Hero-worship, & the Heroic in History: Six Lectures ; Reported, with Emendations and Additions”, p.10

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• Thou fool! Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom; that idle crag thou sittest on is six thousand years of age.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Art, Nature, Years

  Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.80, Univ of California Press

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• Learn to be good readers, which is perhaps a more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn to be discriminative in your reading; to read faithfully, and with your best attention, all kinds of things which you have a real interest in,--a real, not an imaginary,--and which you find to be really fit for what you are engaged in.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Real, Reading, Attention

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.455, Cambridge University Press

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• A fundamental mistake to call vehemence and rigidity strength! A man is not strong who takes convulsion-fits; though six men cannot hold him then. He that can walk under the heaviest weight without staggering, he is the strong man . . . A man who cannot hold his peace, till the time come for speaking and acting, is no right man.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Strength, Strong, Mistake

  Thomas Carlyle (1993). “On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History”, p.158, Univ of California Press

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• Let him who would move and convince others, be first moved and convinced himself.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Leadership, Moving, Want

  "Essay on Burns".

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• It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Birthday, Real, Men

  Sartor Resartus ch. 4 (1838)

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• A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Sadness, Space, Waste

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• Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in heaven.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Heaven, Earth, Summit

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Past and Present”, p.262

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