It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe. Thomas Carlyle More Quotes by Thomas Carlyle More Quotes From Thomas Carlyle Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest course. Thomas Carlyle coursesrevolutionwaiting What is philosophy but a continual battle against custom? Thomas Carlyle customsbattlephilosophy Of all God's creatures, Man alone is poor. Thomas Carlyle creaturespoormen It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics. Thomas Carlyle politicshopepeople Hunger whets everything, especially Suspicion and Indignation. Thomas Carlyle indignationsuspicionhunger The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable. Thomas Carlyle remembrancespringpast If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin. Thomas Carlyle religiousmenreligion An everlasting lodestar, that beams the brighter in the heavens the darker here on earth grows the night. Thomas Carlyle nightheavenreligion Have a purpose in life, and having it, throw into your work such strength of mind and muscle as God has given you. Thomas Carlyle purposemindlife Not one false man but doth uncountable evil. Thomas Carlyle evilmen Eyes bright, with many tears, behind them. Thomas Carlyle behindstearseye Money will buy money's worth; but the thing men call fame, what is it? Thomas Carlyle famemen For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad. Thomas Carlyle qualityjudgingmen Lives the man that can figure a naked Duke of Windlestraw addressing a naked House of Lords? Thomas Carlyle dukeshousemen Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding. Thomas Carlyle understandingimaginationmatter They have their belief, these poor Tibet people, that Providence sends down always an Incarnation of Himself into every generation. At bottom some belief in a kind of Pope! At bottom still better, a belief that there is a Greatest Man; that he is discoverable; that, once discovered, we ought to treat him with an obedience which knows no bounds. This is the truth of Grand Lamaism; the "discoverability" is the only error here. Thomas Carlyle buddhismerrorsmen So much of truth, only under an ancient obsolete vesture, but the spirit of it still true, do I find in the Paganism of old nations. Nature is still divine, the revelation of the workings of God; the Hero is still worshipable: this, under poor cramped incipient forms, is what all Pagan religions have struggled, as they could, to set forth. Thomas Carlyle paganismspirithero Professors of the Dismal Science, I perceive the length of your tether is now pretty well run; and I must request you to talk a little lower in the future. Thomas Carlyle lengthrunninglittles persons, with big wigs many of them and austere aspect, whom I take to be Professors of the Dismal Science… Thomas Carlyle wigsnicknamespolitical Goethe's devil is a cultivated personage and acquainted with the modern sciences; sneers at witchcraft and the black art even while employing them, and doubts most things, nay, half disbelieves even his own existence. Thomas Carlyle blackdoubtart
