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Famous Thomas Carlyle Quotes
“Violence does even justice unjustly.”
“The end of Man is an Action, and not a Thought, though it were the noblest?”
“Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.”
“For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.”
“Speech is great, but silence is greater.”
“I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.”
“The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.”
“A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.”
“If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?”
“I had a lifelong quarrel with God, but in the end we made up.”
“Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile.”
“It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.”
“All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale.”
“The mystery of a person, indeed, is ever divine to him that has a sense for the godlike.”
“With stupidity and sound digestion, man may front much.”
“The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.”
“The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.”
“Only the person of worth can recognize the worth in others.”
“Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.”
“Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.”