Man is a tool-using Animal. Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all. Thomas Carlyle More Quotes by Thomas Carlyle More Quotes From Thomas Carlyle Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together. Thomas Carlyle errors practice together Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, with which all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite... Try him with half of a Universe, of an Omnipotence, he sets to quarreling with the proprietor of the other half, and declares himself the most maltreated of men. Always there is a black spot in our sunshine: It is even, as I said, the Shadow of Ourselves. Thomas Carlyle sunshine greatness men That a Parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an entity which by its very nature cannot do work, but can do talk only. Thomas Carlyle entity newspapers nature A fair day's wages for a fair day's work. Thomas Carlyle fairs wages Nothing ever happens but once in all this world. What I do now I do once for all. It is over and gone, with all its eternity of solemn meaning. Thomas Carlyle events gone world Democracy will prevail when men believe the vote of Judas as good as that of Jesus Christ. Thomas Carlyle men believe jesus There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong. Thomas Carlyle findings instruction The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice. Thomas Carlyle practice mind education And man's little Life has Duties that are great, that are alone great, and go up to Heaven and down to Hell. Thomas Carlyle hell littles heaven Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain-tricks of custom: but of all of these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous, by simple repetition, ceases to be miraculous. Thomas Carlyle illusion knack simple Courtesy is the due of man to man; not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes. Thomas Carlyle clothes suits men When Pococke inquired of Grotius, where the proof was of that story of the pigeon, trained to pick peas from Mahomet's (Muhammad's) ear, and pass for an angel dictating to him? Grotius answered that there was no proof! Thomas Carlyle islamic angel stories A background of wrath, which can be stirred up to the murderous infernal pitch, does lie in every man. Thomas Carlyle anger men lying Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History. Thomas Carlyle names history past Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature. Thomas Carlyle nature humanity men Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows. Thomas Carlyle inseparable knows facts The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent. Thomas Carlyle hmmm clothes looks Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all. Thomas Carlyle journalism three important What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me? Thomas Carlyle life-and-love government art Society is founded upon Cloth. Thomas Carlyle
