The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die. Thomas Carlyle More Quotes by Thomas Carlyle More Quotes From Thomas Carlyle Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one. Thomas Carlyle minoritiesstartingopinion Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy! Thomas Carlyle healthexercisemen Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether. Thomas Carlyle actingdoeadvice We are to take no counsel with flesh and blood; give ear to no vain cavils, vain sorrows and wishes; to know that we know nothing, that the worst and cruelest to our eyes is not what it seems, that we have to receive whatsoever befalls us as sent from God above, and say, "It is good and wise,--God is great! Though He slay me, yet I trust in Him." Islam means, in its way, denial of self. This is yet the highest wisdom that heaven has revealed to our earth. Thomas Carlyle eyewisemean The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once. Thomas Carlyle stellarcrashwhole Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you. Thomas Carlyle visioninspirationallooks Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being. Thomas Carlyle capabilityprocessculture Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another and all against evil only. Thomas Carlyle evilheartmen Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects. Thomas Carlyle philosophicaleyeinspirational The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. Thomas Carlyle businesswatermen This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it. Thomas Carlyle magic-in-the-worldsciencethinking Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world. Thomas Carlyle recognitionlyingworld There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out. Thomas Carlyle paying-debtsincometwo Silence is more eloquent than words. Thomas Carlyle eloquentsilence-issilence Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them. Thomas Carlyle democracyheromean The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. Thomas Carlyle strongcourageinspirational Self-contemplation is infallibly the symptom of disease. Thomas Carlyle contemplationdiseaseself The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better. Thomas Carlyle humorbluefunny The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself. Thomas Carlyle unbeliefdoubtfear Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. Thomas Carlyle goodnessmenpast
