01c. 1838 ADHe who dwells in temporary semblances and does not penetrate into the eternal substance, will not answer the sphinx-riddle of to-day or of any day.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
02c. 1838 ADHe who feels he is right is stronger than king's hosts; he who doubts he is not right has no strength whatever.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
03c. 1838 AD"He who has been born has been a first man," has had lying before his young eyes, and as yet unhardened into scientific shapes, a world as plastic, infinite, divine, as lay before the eyes of Adam himself.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
04c. 1838 ADHe who has no vision of Eternity will never get a true hold of Time.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
05c. 1838 ADHe who has not known poverty, sorrow, contradiction, and the rest, and learned from them the priceless lessons they have to teach, has missed a good opportunity of schooling.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
06c. 1838 ADHe who in any way shows us better than we knew before that a lily of the fields is beautiful, does he not show it us as an effluence of the fountain of all beauty—as the handwriting, made visible there, of the great Maker of the universe?Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
07c. 1838 ADHe who traces nothing of God in his own soul will never find God in the world of matter—mere circlings of force there of iron regulation, of universal death and merciless indifferency.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
08c. 1838 ADHe who wants everything must know many things, do many things to procure even a few; different from him whose indispensable knowledge is this only, that a finger will pull the bell!Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
10c. 1838 ADHere, on earth we are as soldiers fighting in a foreign land, that understand not the plan of the campaign, and have no need to understand it, seeing well what is at our hand to be done.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
11c. 1838 ADHeroism, the Divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
12c. 1838 ADHero-worship exists, has existed, and will for ever exist, universally among mankind.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
13c. 1838 ADHigh air-castles are cunningly built of words, the words well-bedded in good logic mortar; wherein, however, no knowledge will come to lodge.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
14c. 1838 ADHistories are as perfect as the historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
15c. 1838 ADHistory, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature, his earliest expression of what may be called thought.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
16c. 1838 ADHistory is an imprisoned epic, nay, an imprisoned psalm and prophecy.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
17c. 1838 ADHitherto all miracles have been wrought by thought, and henceforth innumerable will be wrought; whereof we, even in these days, witness some.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
18c. 1838 ADHomer's Epos has not ceased to be true; yet is no longer our Epos, but shines in the distance, if clearer and clearer, yet also smaller and smaller, like a receding star. It needs a scientific telescope, it needs to be reinterpreted and artificially brought near us, before we can so much as know that 'twas a sun.... For all things, even celestial luminaries, much more atmospheric meteors, have their rise, their culmination, their decline.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
19c. 1838 ADHow beautiful to die of a broken heart on paper! Quite another thing in practice! Every window of your feeling, even of your intellect, as it were begrimed, so that no pure ray can enter; a whole drug-shop in your inwards; the foredone soul drowning slowly in a quagmire of disgust.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
20c. 1838 ADHow creatures of the human kind shut their eyes to the plainest facts, and by the mere inertia of oblivion and stupidity live at ease in the midst of wonders and terrors.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
21c. 1838 ADHow indestructibly the good grows, and propagates itself, even among the weedy entanglements of evil!Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
22c. 1838 ADHow many causes that can plead for themselves in the courts of Westminster, and yet in the general court of the universe and free soul of man, have no word to utter!Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
23c. 1838 ADHow much lies in laughter, the cipher-key wherewith we decipher the whole man.Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
24c. 1838 ADHow noble is heroic insight without words in comparison to the adroitest flow of words without heroic insight!Thomas Carlyle / quote ↗
