Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves. Thomas Carlyle More Quotes by Thomas Carlyle More Quotes From Thomas Carlyle What, in the devil's name, is the use of respectability, with never so many gigs and silver spoons, if thou inwardly art the pitifulness of all men? Thomas Carlyle respectmenart It is meritorious to insist on forms; religion and all else naturally clothes itself in forms. Everywhere the formed world is the only habitable one. Thomas Carlyle clothesearthworld A star is beautiful; it affords pleasure, not from what it is to do, or to give, but simply by being what it is. It befits the heavens; it has congruity with the mighty space in which it dwells. It has repose; no force disturbs its eternal peace. It has freedom; no obstruction lies between it and infinity. Thomas Carlyle starsbeautifullying Blessed be the God's voice; for it is true, and falsehoods have to cease before it! Thomas Carlyle voicetruthblessed Wise man was he who counselled that speculation should have free course, and look fearlessly towards all the thirty-two points of the compass, whithersoever and howsoever it listed. Thomas Carlyle should-havewisemen The genuine essence of truth never dies. Thomas Carlyle genuineessencetruth All great peoples are conservative. Thomas Carlyle conservative Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts. Thomas Carlyle speechsilenceart Fancy that thou deservest to be hangedthou wilt feel it happiness to be only shot: fancy that thou deservest to be hanged ina hair halter, it will be a luxury to die in hemp. Thomas Carlyle luxuryguilthair Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will. Thomas Carlyle danceinspirationalworld The scandalous bronze-lacquer age of hungry animalisms, spiritual impotences, and mendacities, will have to run its course, till the pit follow it. Thomas Carlyle spiritualagerunning The deepest depth of vulgarism is that of setting up money as the ark of the covenant. Thomas Carlyle covenantarkdepth No country can find eternal peace and comfort where the vote of Judas Iscariot is as good as the vote of the Saviour of mankind. Thomas Carlyle votecomfortcountry A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth. Thomas Carlyle truthmenbelieve Superstition! that horrid incubus which dwelt in darkness, shunning the light, with all its racks, and poison chalices, and foul sleeping draughts, is passing away without return. Religion cannot pass away. The burning of a little straw may hide the stars of the sky; but the stars are there and will reappear. Thomas Carlyle starslightsleep It is now almost my sole rule of life to clear myself of cants and formulas, as of poisonous Nessus shirts. Thomas Carlyle rules-of-lifesoleshirts This we take it is the grand characteristic of our age. By our skill in Mechanism, it has come to pass, that in the management ofexternal things we excel all other ages; while in whatever respects the pure moral nature, in true dignity of soul and character, we are perhaps inferior to most civilised ages. Thomas Carlyle skillssoulcharacter A frightful dialect for the stupid, the pedant and dullard sort. Thomas Carlyle dialectpedantsstupid This London City, with all of its houses, palaces, steam-engines, cathedrals, and huge immeasurable traffic an tumult, what is it but a Thought, but millions of Thoughts made into One-a huge immeasurable Spirit of a Thought, embodied in brick, in iron, smoke, dust, Palaces, Parliaments, Hackney Coaches, Katherine Docks, and the rest of it! Not a brick was made but some man had to think of the making of that brick. Thomas Carlyle ironmenthinking Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one. Thomas Carlyle minoritiesstartingopinion
