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"Enjoy things which are pleasant; that is not the evil: it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is."
- Thomas Carlyle. |
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"Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand."
- Thomas Carlyle. |
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"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts."
- Thomas Carlyle. |
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"That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy."
- Thomas Carlyle. |
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"The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self-activity."
- Thomas Carlyle. |
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"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none."
- Thomas Carlyle, More quotation on Conceit. |
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"Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time."
- Thomas Carlyle, More quotation on Silence. |
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"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books."
- Thomas Carlyle. |
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"Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness."
- Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, 1843, More quotation on Work. |