He was a Scottish satirical writer, essay writer, historian, and instructor in the Victorian period. He called economics the "disappointing scientific research", composed the post for the Edinburgh Encyclopedia, and also became a controversial social analyst.
He came from a stringent Calvinist, as well as was initially expected to follow his parents footsteps and end up being a preacher, but while studying at the College of Edinburgh, he ceases to be a follower. Nonetheless, the values of Calvinism still he kept until the end of his life. The combination of these spiritual character with loss of faith in typical Christianity made Carlyle's jobs interesting to the people in Victorian times that are dealing with political and also clinical adjustments that intimidate their typical social pecking orders.
Our collection contains 111 quotes who is written / told by Thomas, under the main topics: Love - Business - Work.
"A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder"
"The true university of these days is a collection of books"
"No pressure, no diamonds"
"Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite"
"The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall"
"He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years"
"Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness"
"A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge"
"Work alone is noble"
"Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand"
"Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid"
"Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come"
"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"
"The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done"
"The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity"
"Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do"
"I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it"
"Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all"
"Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with"
"Wonder is the basis of worship"
"The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever"
"The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better"
"Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight"
"A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one"
"Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it"
"Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains"
"Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct"
"All great peoples are conservative"
"A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things"
"Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen"
"This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it"
"The spiritual is the parent of the practical"
"Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time"
"Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious"
"No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men"
"Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species"
"Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will"
"Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct"
"All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books"
"A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus"
"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"
"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence"
"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"
"I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance"
"The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green"
"Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment"
"Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are"
"To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes"
"The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion"
"The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity"