Thomas Carlyle Quotes - Page 19

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• Know what thou canst work at, and work at it like a Hercules.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Effort, Knows

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Works”

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• A dandy is a clothes-wearing man--a man whose trade, office, and existence consist in the wearing of clothes. Every faculty of his soul, spirit, person and purse is heroically consecrated to this one object--the wearing of clothes, wisely and well; so that, as others dress to live, he lives to dress.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Clothes, Office

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.166

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• This London City, with all of its houses, palaces, steam-engines, cathedrals, and huge immeasurable traffic an tumult, what is it but a Thought, but millions of Thoughts made into One-a huge immeasurable Spirit of a Thought, embodied in brick, in iron, smoke, dust, Palaces, Parliaments, Hackney Coaches, Katherine Docks, and the rest of it! Not a brick was made but some man had to think of the making of that brick.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Thinking, Iron

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History”, p.195, CUP Archive

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• The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Time, Yesterday, Forever

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• If you are looking at data over and over you better be taking away valuable insight every time. If you are constantly looking at data that isn't leading to strategic action stop wasting your time and look for more Actionable Analytics.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Data, Over You, Looks

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• A thought once awakened does not again slumber.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Doe, Slumber, Awakened

  Thomas Carlyle (1841). “On Heroes, Hero-Worship,&the Heroic in History. Six Lectures. Reported with emendations and additions”, p.34

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• Man, it is not thy works, which are mortal, infinitely little, and the greatest no greater than the least, but only the spirit thou workest in, that can have worth or continuance.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Littles, Spirit

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “The French Revolution: a History”, p.18

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• Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Hate, Nursing

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• Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Belief, Excellent, Conviction

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• This is the eternal law of Nature for a man, my beneficent Exeter-Hall friends; this, that he shall be permitted, encouraged, and if need be, compelled to do what work the Maker of him has intended by the making of him for this world! Not that he should eat pumpkin with never such felicity in the West India Islands is, or can be, the blessedness of our Black friend; but that he should do useful work there, according as the gifts have been bestowed on him for that.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Purpose, Makers

  "Occasional Discourse on the Nigger Question". Reprinted, with additions, from Fraser's Magazine,

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• If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Kind, Speak, Truth Is

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• These Arabs, the man Mahomet, and that one century, - is it not as if a spark had fallen, one spark, on a world of what proves explosive powder, blazes heaven-high from Delhi to Granada! I said, the Great man was always as lightning out of Heaven; the rest of men waited for him like fuel, and then they too would flame.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Islamic, Men, Flames

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Sartor Resartus”, p.242

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• We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs as we have never heard questioned.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Believe, Thinking, May

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Sartor Resartus”, p.158

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• In a certain sense all men are historians.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, History, Certain

  Thomas Carlyle (1855). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: By Thomas Carlyle”, p.220

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• Evil, once manfully fronted, ceases to be evil; there is generous battle-hope in place of dead, passive misery; the evil itself has become a kind of good.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Evil, Battle, Misery

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.81, Lulu.com

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• Not one false man but doth uncountable evil.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Evil

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• How great a Possibility, how small a realized Result.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Possibility, Results

  1834 Of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Letter to Emerson, 12 Aug.

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• In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Running, Witty, Government

  Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.149

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• Eyes bright, with many tears, behind them.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Eye, Tears, Behinds

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• Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Talking, Unhappy, Tape

  Describing himself, in 'Latter-Day Pamphlets' (1850) 'The Present Time'

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• Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow destruction.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Teaching, School, Math

  Thomas Carlyle (1886). “Early Letters”, p.281, Georg Olms Verlag

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• Wealth has more and more increased, and at the same time gathered itself more and more into masses, strangely altering the old relations, and increasing the distance between the rich and the poor.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Distance, Wealth, Rich

  1829 Signs of the Times.

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• In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by Silence and by Speech acting together, comes a double significance.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Silence, Acting, Together

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.276, CUP Archive

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• The infinite, absolute character of Virtue has passed into a finite, conditional one; it is no longer a worship of the Beautiful and Good; but a calculation of the Profitable.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Beautiful, Character, Worship

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.23, Lulu.com

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• History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature, his earliest expression of what may be called thought.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Spiritual, Lying, Science

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.55, CUP Archive

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