Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries. Thomas Carlyle More Quotes by Thomas Carlyle More Quotes From Thomas Carlyle It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale. Thomas Carlyle pistolsstrangeinfluence The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it. Thomas Carlyle neglectmenworld He that will not work according to his faculty, let him perish according to his necessity: there is no law juster than that. Thomas Carlyle facultylawwork Be not a slave of words. Thomas Carlyle slaveadvice Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union-bond of man to man. Cash never yet paid one man fully his deserts to another; nor could it, nor can it, now or henceforth to the end of the world. Thomas Carlyle moneymenyears There is something in man which your science cannot satisfy. Thomas Carlyle menscience The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope. Thomas Carlyle heightdespairdepth Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal. Thomas Carlyle stiflingspeechart To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow. Thomas Carlyle eyeyellowmean The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear. Thomas Carlyle drainedattractivepast The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the individual who, because of the fear of making a mistake, won't in the end affirm or deny anything Thomas Carlyle passionatefearmistake Love not pleasure; love God. This is the Everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved. Thomas Carlyle contradictionpleasurelove No man at bottom means injustice; it is always for some obscure distorted image of a right that he contends: an obscure image diffracted, exaggerated, in the wonderfulest way by natural dimness and selfishness; getting tenfold more diffracted by exasperation of contest, till at length it become all but irrecognis-able. Thomas Carlyle selfishnessmenmean As there is no danger of our becoming, any of us, Mahometans (i.e. Muslim), I mean to say all the good of him I justly can. Thomas Carlyle islamicbecomingmean Necessity dispenseth with decorum. Thomas Carlyle decorum We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under due laws-of-war, named fair competition and so forth, it is a mutual hostility. Thomas Carlyle competitionlawwar Man always worships something; always he sees the Infinite shadowed forth in something finite; and indeed can and must so see it in any finite thing, once tempt him well to fix his eyes thereon. Thomas Carlyle eyeworshipmen Genuine Work alone, what thou workest faithfully, that is eternal, as the Almighty Founder and World-Builder himself. Thomas Carlyle almightyworkworld High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well bedded also in good Logic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge will come to lodge. Thomas Carlyle castleslogicair Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed this His universe to go. Thomas Carlyle almightywealthlaw
