Thomas Carlyle Quotes - Page 33

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• In no time whatever can small critics entirely eradicate out of living men's hearts a certain altogether peculiar collar reverence for Great Men--genuine admiration, loyalty, adora-tion.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Loyalty, Appreciation, Heart

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• The English are a dumb people. They can do great acts, but not describe them.

  Thomas Carlyle

  People, Dumb, Dumb People

  Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.93

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• I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Country, Eye, Men

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• Lives the man that can figure a naked Duke of Windlestraw addressing a naked House of Lords?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, House, Dukes

  Thomas Carlyle (1831). “Sartor Resartus: The life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in three books: By Thomas Carlyle”, p.42

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• It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Symbols

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.278, CUP Archive

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• Society is founded on hero-worship.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Hero, Worship, Hero Worship

  Thomas Carlyle (1869). “Heroes and Hero-worship”, p.15

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• No age seemed the age of romance to itself.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Romance, Age, Romanticism

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• persons, with big wigs many of them and austere aspect, whom I take to be Professors of the Dismal Science…
  Coining “Dismal Science” as a nickname for Political Economy

  Thomas Carlyle

  Political, Wigs, Nicknames

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• The authentic insight and experience of any human soul, were it but insight and experience in hewing of wood and drawing of water, is real knowledge, a real possession and acquirement.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Real, Drawing, Water

  Thomas Carlyle (1881). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.164

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• 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.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Eye, Enthusiasm, Pairs

  "Sartor Resartus: The Historian".

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• Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Rights, Remember, Breeding

  Thomas Carlyle (1833). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Zenfelsdröck in Three Books”, p.165

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• What I loved in the man was his health, his unity with himself; all people and all things seemed to find their quite peaceable adjustment with him, not a proud domineering one, as after doubtful contest, but a spontaneous-looking peaceable, even humble one.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Humble, Men, People

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• It is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy; but it is error, insincerity, half belief and untruth that make it.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mistake, Errors, Inquiry

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Works”, p.116

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• That monstrous tuberosity of civilised life, the capital of England.

  Thomas Carlyle

  London, England, Civilised

  Thomas Carlyle (1831). “Sartor Resartus: The life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in three books: By Thomas Carlyle”, p.167

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• That great mystery of TIME, were there no other; the illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean tide, on which we and all the Universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not: this is forever very literally a miracle; a thing to strike us dumb,-for we have no word to speak about it.

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  Time, Ocean, Rushing

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.96, Lulu.com

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• Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Past, Names, History

  Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.36

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• Professors of the Dismal Science, I perceive the length of your tether is now pretty well run; and I must request you to talk a little lower in the future.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Running, Littles, Length

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Witty, Math, Science

  Chartism ch. 2 (1839) See Disraeli 38

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• In a different time, in a different place, it is always some other side of our common human nature that has been developing itself. The actual truth is the sum of all these.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Different, Sides, Common

  "The Hero As Divinity. Odin. Paganism: Scandinavian Mythology". Lecture, May 5, 1840.

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Philosophy, Eye, Looks

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

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