Thomas Carlyle Quotes - Page 7

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• Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Government, Liberty, Machines

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.19, Lulu.com

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• See deep enough, and you see musically.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Enough, Music Healing, Music And Healing

  Thomas Carlyle (1841). “On heroes, hero-worship, & the heroic in history: six lectures ; reported, with emendations and additions”, p.135

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• A man perfects himself by working.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Work, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (2016). “Past and Present: The Historian”, p.189, 北戴河出版

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• There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Writing, Men, Discovery

  John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle (2010). “Autobiography of J.S. Mill & on Liberty; Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh & Sir Walter Scott”, p.413, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The first purpose of clothes... was not warmth or decency, but ornament.... Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to clothes. The first spiritual want of a barbarous man is decoration; as indeed we still see among the barbarous classes in civilized countries.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Country, Spiritual, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Sartor Resartus”, p.23

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  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

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• And there are Ben [Jonson] and William Shakespeare in wit-combat, sure enough; Ben bearing down like a mighty Spanish war-ship, fraught with all learning and artillery; Shakespeare whisking away from him - whisking right through him, athwart the big bulk and timbers of him; like a miraculous Celestial Light-ship, woven all of sheet-lightning and sunbeams!

  Thomas Carlyle

  War, Light, Ships

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• In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Notable, Moments

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.180, CUP Archive

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• A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Work, Men, Sight

  1839 Chartism, ch.4.

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• The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. The greatest of faults, I should say is to be conscious of none.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Secret, Faults, Conscious

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• No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Eye, Two, Pairs

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• Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Fortune, Circumstances

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Critical & Miscellaneous Essays: Collected & Republished”, p.228

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• There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Acting, Done, Shapes

  Thomas Carlyle (1891). “The Socialism and Unsocialism of Thomas Carlyle: Introduction, by the editor. Book I. Proem. Book II. The modern worker. Book III. Signs of the times. Book IV. Horoscope. Essay on the genius and tendency of the writings of Thomas Carlyle, by Joseph Mazzini. v. 2. Book V. The French revolution. Book VI. Horoscope. Essay on the genius and tendency of the writings of Thomas Carlyle, by Joseph Mazzini”

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• Thought is the parent of the deed.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Thinking, Parent, Deeds

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• There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Instruction, Findings

  Thomas Carlyle (1882). “The Hero as Prophet. Mahomet: Islam Lecture 2: Heroes & Hero Worship”

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• Know what thou canst work at, and work at it like a Hercules.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Effort, Knows

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Works”

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• Leaders: Captains of industry.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Leadership, Captains, Industry

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

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• The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Heart, Cutting, Color

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• Statistics, one may hope, will improve gradually, and become good for something. Meanwhile, it is to be feared the crabbed satirist was partly right, as things go: "A judicious man," says he, "looks at Statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted on him."

  Thomas Carlyle

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Science

  English and Other Critical Essays Chartism, Chapter II

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• Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Minorities, Opinion, Starting

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.133, Lulu.com

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• Self-contemplation is infallibly the symptom of disease.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Self, Disease, Contemplation

  Characteristics

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• Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Motivational, Happiness, Work

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• With stupidity and sound digestion, man may front much.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Stupidity, Sound

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.99

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• Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Positive, Christian

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• Quackery gives birth to nothing; gives death to all things.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Giving, Birth, All Things

  Heroes and Hero-Worship Lect. I

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