Thomas Carlyle Quotes About Goodness

Quotes about: Goodness

• Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Past, Men, Goodness

  Thomas Carlyle (1842). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.320

• Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Elements, Mysterious, Mystery

• The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Change, Truth

  Thomas Carlyle (1858). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays”, p.308

• How indestructibly the good grows, and propagates itself, even among the weedy entanglements of evil.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Evil, Goodness, Entanglement

  Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.76, Univ of California Press

• Taste, if it mean anything but a paltry connoisseurship, must mean a general susceptibility to truth and nobleness, a sense to discern, and a heart to love and reverence all beauty, order, goodness, wheresoever, or in whatsoever forms and accompaniments they are to be seen. This surely implies, as its chief condition, not any given external rank or situation, but a finely-gifted mind, purified into harmony with itself, into keenness and justness of vision; above all, kindled into love and generous admiration.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mean, Heart, Order

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Critical and miscellaneous essays, collected and republ”, p.50

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