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Thomas Carlyle

Birthday: December 04, 1795
Deathday: February 05, 1881
Category: Scottish Philosopher
Type: Philosopher
National: Scottish

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If you look deep enough you will see music; the...

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous...

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge....

A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless...

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and...

A man willing to work, and unable to find work,...

A man without a goal is like a ship without...

A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible...

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and...

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to...

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent...

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with....

All great peoples are conservative....

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is...

Be not a slave of words....

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him...

Clever men are good, but they are not the best....

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct....

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

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all...

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second...

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone....

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and...

Endurance is patience concentrated....

Every day that is born into the world comes like...

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a...

Every noble work is at first impossible....

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we...

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light...

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing...

For all right judgment of any man or things it...

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not...

Fun I love, but too much fun is of all...

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains....

Go as far as you can see; when you get...

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only...

Happy the people whose annals are vacant....

He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would...

He who has health, has hope; and he who has...

History shows that the majority of people that have done...

History, a distillation of rumour....

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of...

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual...

I don't like to talk much with people who always...

I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a...

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and...

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather...

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there...

If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no...

If what you have done is unjust, you have not...

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to...

If you do not wish a man to do a...

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part...

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till...

In books lies the soul of the whole past time....

In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable...

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of...

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man....

It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect,...

It is a vain hope to make people happy by...

It is the heart always that sees, before the head...

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all...

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being...

Let each become all that he was created capable of...

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap...

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many...

Love is the only game that is not called on...

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be...

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing,...

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no...

Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it...

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all...

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time...

Music is well said to be the speech of angels....

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as...

Necessity dispenseth with decorum....

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without...

No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes....

No great man lives in vain. The history of the...

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can...

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all...

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can...

No person is important enough to make me angry....

No pressure, no diamonds....

No sadder proof can be given by a man of...

No violent extreme endures....

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding...

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the...

Not what I have, but what I do is my...

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment....

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight....

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth...

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine....

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work....

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is...

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them...

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly...

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly...

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s,...

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform...

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language...

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was...

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even...

Show me the man you honor, and I will know...

Show me the person you honor, for I know better...

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as...

Silence is more eloquent than words....

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves...

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and...

Talk that does not end in any kind of action...

Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've...

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the...

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage...

The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent...

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and...

The end of man is action, and not thought, though...

The eye sees what it brings the power to see....

The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself....

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he...

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be...

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free...

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity....

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome...

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in...

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday,...

The real use of gunpowder is to make all men...

The spiritual is the parent of the practical....

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing,...

The true university of these days is a collection of...

The work an unknown good man has done is like...

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was....

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes...

There is a great discovery still to be made in...

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still...

Thought is the parent of the deed....

Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into...

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise...

To us also, through every star, through every blade of...

True humor springs not more from the head than from...

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies...

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to...

Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects....

What we become depends on what we read after all...

What you see, but can't see over is as good...

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the...

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with...

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not...

Wonder is the basis of worship....

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of...

Work alone is noble....

Worship is transcendent wonder....

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as...

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but...