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Thomas Carlyle: Quotes
- Capitalism
Laissez-faire, Supply-and-demand,—one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egoism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause:—it is the Gospel of Despair!: Past and Present
- Civilization
The three great elements of modern civilization, gunpowder, printing, and the Protestant religion.: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays
- Culture
The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays
- Democracy
Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.: Past and Present
- Faults and Weaknesses
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.: On Heroes, Hero- Worship and the Heroic in History
- France and the French
France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams.: The French Revolution
- Government
In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom.: Past and Present
- Great and Small
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.: On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History
- History
History is the essence of innumerable biographies.: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays
- Minorities
Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.: On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History
- Originality
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.: On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History
- Perception
In everyobject there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.: The French Revolution
- Religion
If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
- Silence
Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity.: Sartor Resartus
- Speech and Speakers
Speech is too often not . . . the art of concealing Thought; but of quite stifling and suspending Thought.: Sartor Resartus
- The Self
The Ideal is in thyself, the impediment too is in thyself.: Sartor Resartus
- The World
This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.: On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History
- Work
Work is the grand cure for all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind,—honest work, which you intend getting done.