Thomas Carlyle Quotes About Reality

Quotes about: Reality

• Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists. It is in reality no longer expected or recognized as a virtue among men.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Reality, Men, Lost Friendship

  Thomas Carlyle (1897). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete).”

• I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

  Thomas Carlyle

  God, Reality, Devil

  Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson, April 29, 1836

• Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Reality, Fiction, Ifs

  Thomas Carlyle, A.H.R. Ball (2014). “The French Revolution”, p.13, Cambridge University Press

• Men worship the shows of great men; the most disbelieve that there is any reality of great men to worship.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Reality, Greatness, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (1869). “Heroes and Hero-worship”, p.100

• Manhood begins when we have in any way made truce with Necessity; begins even when we have surrendered to Necessity, as the most part only do; but begins joyfully and hopefully only when we have reconciled ourselves to Necessity; and thus, in reality, triumphed over it, and felt that in Necessity we are free.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Reality, Way, Made

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.295, Cambridge University Press

• Happy season of virtuous youth, when shame is still an impassable barrier, and the sacred air-cities of hope have not shrunk into the mean clay hamlets of reality; and man, by his nature, is yet infinite and free.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mean, Reality, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (1869). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh : in Three Books”, p.131

• Alas! we know that ideals can never be completely embodied in practice. Ideals must ever lie a great way off--and we will thankfully content ourselves with any not intolerable approximation thereto! Let no man, as Schiller says, too querulously "measure by a scale of perfection the meager product of reality" in this poor world of ours.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Lying, Reality, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History”, p.234, CUP Archive

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