Thomas Carlyle Quotes About Mankind

Quotes about: Mankind

• O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Earth, Bitter, Poor

  Thomas Carlyle (1838). “The French Revolution: A History”, p.177

• Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Work, Misery, Cures

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

• 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.

• Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

• Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Hero, Forever, Worship

  Thomas Carlyle (1848). “Past and Present: Chartism, and Sartor Resartus”

• All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Lying, Book, Magic

  On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic "The Hero as Man of Letters" (1841)

• The most unhappy of all men is the man who cannot tell what he is going to do, who has got no work cut-out for him in the world, and does not go into it. For work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind,honest work, which you intend getting done.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Cutting, Men, Unhappy

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

• Generations are as the days of toilsome mankind; death and birth are the vesper and the matin bells that summon mankind to sleep and to rise refreshed for new advancement. What the father has made, the son can make and enjoy; but has also work of his own appointed him. Thus all things wax and roll onwards: arts, establishments, opinions, nothing is ever completed, but ever completing.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Art, Father, Sleep

  Thomas Carlyle (2016). “Sartor Resartus: The Historian”, p.180, 北戴河出版

• No country can find eternal peace and comfort where the vote of Judas Iscariot is as good as the vote of the Saviour of mankind.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Country, Comfort, Vote

• Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Vices, Nine, Misery

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Life of Friedrich Schiller (1825): Life of John Sterling (1851)”, p.38

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