Thomas Carlyle
127 quotations
Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.
History is the distillation of rumor.
The whole past is the procession of the present.
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature.
The actual well seen is ideal.
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own.
Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
He that can work is born to be king of something.
A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man
No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
The true university of these days is a collection of books.
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.
Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.
Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.
Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.
The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.
If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.