Thomas Carlyle Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Eye

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1900). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle: Critical and miscellaneous essays”

• We are to take no counsel with flesh and blood; give ear to no vain cavils, vain sorrows and wishes; to know that we know nothing, that the worst and cruelest to our eyes is not what it seems, that we have to receive whatsoever befalls us as sent from God above, and say, "It is good and wise,--God is great! Though He slay me, yet I trust in Him." Islam means, in its way, denial of self. This is yet the highest wisdom that heaven has revealed to our earth.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wise, Mean, Eye

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Eye, Two, Pairs

• 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

• In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Knowledge, Mean, Eye

  Thomas Carlyle, Marianna De_Marinis (1851). “The French Revolution a History by Thomas Carlyle: The bastille”, p.8

• 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

• All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Eye, Responsibility, Men

• Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Eye, Two, Independence

• 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".

• To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

  Thomas Carlyle

  God, Stars, Eye

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.97, Lulu.com

• The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Knowledge, Eye, Power

• Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wise, Eye, History

  Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: With Elucidations”, p.6

• The true eye for talent presupposes the true reverence for it.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Eye, Talent, Reverence

  Thomas Carlyle (1858). “Chartism: Past and Present. By Thomas Carlyle”, p.94

• Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a taxing-machine; to the contented, a machine for securing property. Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Father, Party, Eye

  Thomas Carlyle, A.H.R. Ball (2014). “Selections from Carlyle”, p.111, Cambridge University Press

• Man always worships something; always he sees the Infinite shadowed forth in something finite; and indeed can and must so see it in any finite thing, once tempt him well to fix his eyes thereon.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Eye, Men, Worship

  Thomas Carlyle (1881). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.116

• The eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing."

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mean, Eye, Intellect

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Critical and miscellaneous essays, collected and republ”, p.198

• Such is the world. Understand it, despise it, love it; cheerfully hold on thy way through it, with thy eye on highest loadstars!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Eye, World, Way

  Thomas Carlyle (1848). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays”, p.78

• To the vulgar eye, few things are wonderful that are not distant

  Thomas Carlyle

  Eye, Wonderful, Vulgar

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.259, Cambridge University Press

• Shakespeare says, we are creatures that look before and after; the more surprising that we do not look around a little, and see what is passing under our very eyes.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Eye, Looks, Littles

  Sartor Resartus Book I, Chapter 1

• Pin thy faith to no man's sleeve. Hast thou not two eyes of thy own?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Faith, Eye, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (1881). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.329

• Eyes bright, with many tears, behind them.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Eye, Tears, Behinds

• To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mean, Eye, Yellow

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History”, p.87

• A man must indeed be a hero to appear such in the eyes of his valet.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Hero, Eye, Men

• When I gaze into the stars, they look down upon me with pity from their serene and silent spaces, like eyes glistening with tears over the little lot of man. Thousands of generations, all as noisy as our own, have been swallowed up by time, and there remains no record of them any more. Yet Arcturus and Orion, Sirius and Pleiades, are still shining in their courses, clear and young, as when the shepherd first noted them in the plain of Shinar!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Stars, Eye, Men

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