Thomas Carlyle Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Believe, Iron

• A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Book, Essence, Soul

  Speech in support of the London Library, 24 June 1840, in F. Harrison 'Carlyle and the London Library' (1907) p. 66

• The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Love, Giving, Soul

• Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Positive, Strength

• The universe is but one vast Symbol of God.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Diversity, Soul, Symbols

  Thomas Carlyle (1831). “Sartor Resartus: The life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in three books: By Thomas Carlyle”, p.152

• Literature is the thought of thinking souls.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Thinking, Soul, Literature

  John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle (2010). “Autobiography of J.S. Mill & on Liberty; Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh & Sir Walter Scott”, p.464, Cosimo, Inc.

• The great soul of this world is just.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Justice, Soul, World

• When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Ocean, Loss, Technology

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.44, CUP Archive

• In books lies the soul fo the whole past time.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Lying, Book, Past

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

• The authentic insight and experience of any human soul, were it but insight and experience in hewing of wood and drawing of water, is real knowledge, a real possession and acquirement.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Real, Drawing, Water

  Thomas Carlyle (1881). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.164

• The Bible is the truest utterance that ever came by alphabetic letters from the soul of man, through which, as through a window divinely opened, all men can look into the stillness of eternity, and discern in glimpses their far-distant, long-forgotten home.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Bible, Home, Biblical

• Great souls are always loyally submissive, reverent to what is over them: only small mean souls are otherwise.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Respect, Mean, Soul

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.215, Lulu.com

• Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things. A sad case for him when all that he can manage to believe is something he can button in his pocket, and with one or the other organ eat and digest! Lower than that he will not get.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Believe, Men, Soul

  Thomas Carlyle, Edwin Markham (1842). “On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History: Six Lectures, Reported, with Emendations and Additions”, p.215

• The Builder of this Universe was wise, He plann'd all souls, all systems, planets, particles: The Plan He shap'd all Worlds and Æons by, Was-Heavens!-was thy small Nine-and-thirty Articles!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wise, Science, Heaven

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.341, Lulu.com

• In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Dream, Time, Lying

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

• Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wise, Soul, Intellectual

  Thomas Carlyle, Edwin Markham (1842). “On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History: Six Lectures, Reported, with Emendations and Additions”, p.215

• Does it ever give thee pause that men used to have a soul? Not by hearsay alone, or as a figure of speech, but as a thruth that they knew and acted upon. Verily it was another world then, but yet it is a pity we have lost the tidings of our souls. We shall have to go in search of them again or worse in all ways shall befall us.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Giving, Soul

• Look around you. Your world-hosts are all in mutiny, in confusion, destitution; on the eve of fiery wreck and madness! They will not march farther for you, on the sixpence a day and supply-demand principle; they will not; nor ought they, nor can they. Ye shall reduce them to order, begin reducing them. to order, to just subordination; noble loyalty in return for noble guidance. Their souls are driven nigh mad; let yours be sane and ever saner.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Loyalty, Order, Mad

• Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines of two everlasting empires, - Necessity and Free Will.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Freedom, Light, Two

  "Essays on Goethe (Goethe's Works)". Book by Thomas Carlyle, 1888.

• There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Hero, Soul, Needs

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History”, p.171, CUP Archive

• Without oblivion, there is no remembrance possible. When both oblivion and memory are wise, when the general soul of man is clear, melodious, true, there may come a modern Iliad as memorial of the Past.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wise, Memories, Past

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

• All sorts of Heroes are intrinsically of the same material; that given a great soul, open to the Divine Significance of Life, then there is given a man fit to speak of this, to sing of this, to fight and work for this, in a great, victorious, enduring manner; there is given a Hero, -- the outward shape of whom will depend on the time and the environment he finds himself in.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Hero, Fighting, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.271

• How, without clothes, could we possess the master organ, soul's seat and true pineal gland of the body social--I mean a purse?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mean, Clothes, Soul

  Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.50, Univ of California Press

• 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

• But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Happiness, Simple, Rights

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