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Thomas Carlyle Quotes
Scottish author, essayist, & historian
| “ | Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
Past and Present, 1843 | ” |
| “ | 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. | ” |
| “ | 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.
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| “ | The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
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| “ | The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self-activity. | ” |
| “ | That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
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| “ | Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts. | ” |
| “ | Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world. | ” |
| “ | Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand. | ” |
| “ | Enjoy things which are pleasant; that is not the evil: it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is. | ” |
| “ | All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you. | ” |
| “ | A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one. | ” |
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