A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads. Thomas Carlyle More Quotes by Thomas Carlyle More Quotes From Thomas Carlyle Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist. Thomas Carlyle parrotsteachdemand Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world. Thomas Carlyle persuasionkingsworld The spiritual is the parent of the practical. Thomas Carlyle spiritualityparentspiritual Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to. Thomas Carlyle success-in-lifenumbersinspirational The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion. Thomas Carlyle guncivilizationreligion Oblivion is the dark page, whereon Memory writes her light-beam characters, and makes them legible; were it all light, nothing could be read there, any more than if it were all darkness. Thomas Carlyle writingcharactermemories No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. Thomas Carlyle positivehappinessinspirational No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment. Thomas Carlyle disappointmentbookart What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it Thomas Carlyle heartmemorieslying The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity. Thomas Carlyle vanityheartmen Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains. Thomas Carlyle painmotivationallife These Arabs, the man Mahomet, and that one century, - is it not as if a spark had fallen, one spark, on a world of what proves explosive powder, blazes heaven-high from Delhi to Granada! I said, the Great man was always as lightning out of Heaven; the rest of men waited for him like fuel, and then they too would flame. Thomas Carlyle islamicflamesmen We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or another meaning, has been called Inspiration, and held to be mysterious and inscrutable, is no longer without its scientific exposition. The building of the lofty rhyme is like any other masonry or bricklaying: we have theories of its rise, height, decline and fall -- which latter, it would seem, is now near, among all people. Thomas Carlyle inspirationpeoplefall The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully. Thomas Carlyle courageinspirationalmen When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances. Thomas Carlyle technologyoceanloss Speech is of time, silence is of eternity. Thomas Carlyle speechsilencetime Worship is transcendent wonder. Thomas Carlyle transcendentworshipwonder Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is. Thomas Carlyle honorhumanityideas Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident. Thomas Carlyle accidentsdoemen The universe is but one vast Symbol of God. Thomas Carlyle symbolsdiversitysoul
