Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one; and there are certainly many more men whose history deserves to be recorded than persons willing and able to record it. Thomas Carlyle More Quotes by Thomas Carlyle More Quotes From Thomas Carlyle All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone. Thomas Carlyle evilgonenight The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person. Thomas Carlyle eventswisdomwise The age of miracles is forever here. Thomas Carlyle miracleageforever The actual well seen is ideal. Thomas Carlyle idealismidealswells Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking? Thomas Carlyle finetruthmen Life is a series of lessons that have to be understood. Thomas Carlyle learninglessonsteaching Books are a triviality. Life alone is great. Thomas Carlyle trivialitylifebook Force, force, everywhere force; we ourselves a mysterious force in the centre of that. "There is not a leaf rotting on the highway but has Force in it: how else could it rot?" [As used in his time, by the word force, Carlyle means energy.] Thomas Carlyle rottingenergymean A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads. Thomas Carlyle progresshalfcommitment The archenemy is the arch stupid! Thomas Carlyle archesconflictstupid Variety is the condition of harmony. Thomas Carlyle conditionsharmonyvariety Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes. Thomas Carlyle dupesraw-materialslying Wealth of a man is the number of things which he loves and blesses which he is loved and blessed by. Thomas Carlyle blessednumbersmen The Persians are called the French of the East; we will call the Arabs Oriental Italians. A gifted noble people; a people of wildstrong feelings, and of iron restraint over these: the characteristic of noblemindedness, of genius. Thomas Carlyle ironfeelingspeople In our wide world there is but one altogether fatal personage, the dunce,--he that speaks irrationally, that sees not, and yet thinks he sees. Thomas Carlyle stupidityworldthinking The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth. Thomas Carlyle masserrorstruth The whole past is the procession of the present. Thomas Carlyle wholehistorypast Experience of actual fact either teaches fools or abolishes them. Thomas Carlyle fooleducationscience Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film. Thomas Carlyle doneswimscience Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious. Thomas Carlyle mysteriouselementsmystery
