“Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it?”
Source: The French Revolution: The Historian
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Famous Thomas Carlyle Quotes
“A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up.”
Source: The French Revolution: a History
“And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable.”
Source: Carlyle Reader
“There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done.”
Source: Critical and miscellaneous essays, collected and republ
Source: Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh : in Three Books
Source: Carlyle Reader
“Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt.”
Source: Selections from Carlyle
Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished
“He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of virtuous living.”
Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...
Source: The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle
Source: Works
Source: Chartism: Past and Present. By Thomas Carlyle
Source: Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh
Source: Past and Present
Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished
“The goal of yesterday will be our starting-point to-morrow.”
“Reform, like charity, must begin at home.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Carlyle
“It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being.”
Source: Carlyle Reader
“Society is founded on hero-worship.”
Source: Heroes and Hero-worship
“Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.”
Source: On heroes, hero-worship, & the heroic in history: six lectures ; reported, with emendations and additions
“Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind.”
Source: Past and Present: Chartism, and Sartor Resartus
“I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country.”
“It is in general more profitable to reckon up our defeats than to boast of our attainments.”
“Music... a kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads to the edge of the Infinite.”
Source: Works
“The greatest security against sin is to be shocked at its presence.”
Source: The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle
“Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.”
Source: On heroes, hero-worship, & the heroic in history: six lectures ; reported, with emendations and additions
“Is not light grander than fire? It is the same element in a state of purity.”
Source: Works
“All human souls, never so bedarkened, love light; light once kindled spreads till all is luminous.”
Source: Past and Present
“Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.”
“The true Church of England, at this moment, lies in the Editors of the newspapers.”
“Close thy Byron ; open thy Goethe .”
Source: Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books
Source: The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle
Source: Critical & Miscellaneous Essays: Collected & Republished
Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: (VI, 507 p.)
“The public is anold woman.Let her maunderand mumble.”
Source: The Sayings of Thomas Carlyle