Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) was an English publicist, historian, philosopher and satirist who was very popular in Victorian England.
All that exists in the universe is the endless conjugations of the verb "do".
Despotism, limited to epigrams, reigned for a long time in France.
All the destitute must understand only one thing: to be destitute is stupid.
Everywhere, constantly, a person must “pay with his life”, he must, like a soldier, do his job at the expense of his life.
All labor is noble, and only labor is noble.
All greatness is unconscious - otherwise it is worth little or nothing.
Genius is, first of all, an outstanding ability to be responsible for everything.
Geniuses are our real people, ours, the leaders of the stupid crowd following them, as if obeying the dictates of fate. They possessed a rare ability not only to "guess" and "think", but to know and believe. By nature, they were inclined to live, not relying on rumors, but based on certain views. While others, blinded by the one outer side of things, rushed aimlessly through the great fair of life, they considered the essence of things and went forward like people who have a guiding star before their eyes and tread on safe paths.
The main organ of the human body, the unshakable foundation on which the soul rests, is the wallet.
Stupidity and good digestion are indispensable qualities for dealing with deprivation.
Two or three is already a Society. One will become God, the other the devil, one will speak from the pulpit, the other will hang under the crossbar.
If Jesus Christ appeared today, no one would crucify him. He would have been invited to dinner, listened to and laughed heartily.
If you want to keep a person from doing something, make him talk about it: the more people talk, the less they have the inclination to do.
If we ourselves are serfs, then there can be no heroes for us.
If a person knows the measure, he knows everything.
Life is short, very a short time between two eternities...
The life of a great man is not a merry dance, but a battle and a campaign, a struggle with rulers and entire kingdoms.
The errors of a wise man are positively more instructive than the truths of a fool, for he hovers in lofty regions, from where everything is far to be seen, while the fool treads low beaten paths.
A healthy person is the most precious product of nature.
Health is a great thing both for the one who uses it and for others.
The ideal is in you. The obstacles to achieving it are in you. Your position is the material from which you must realize this ideal.
Of all rights, the most irrefutable is the right of the wise (whether by force or persuasion) to lead a fool.
Of all the manifestations of human creativity, this is the most amazing and worthy of attention. The thoughts of past times live in books; the voices of people whose ashes have long been scattered like a dream are heard clearly and distinctly. Everything that humanity has done, changed its mind, everything that it has achieved - all this has been preserved, as if by magic, on the pages of books.
Sincere joy gives a person the opportunity to admire someone; nothing so exalts him - even for a short time - above all petty conditions as sincere admiration.
History is the quintessence of gossip.
The history of the world is the biography of great people.
The book is the purest essence of the human soul.
No matter how often we are told that a closer and more detailed acquaintance with people and things will lessen our admiration, or that only the obscure and half unfamiliar can seem sublime, still we should not absolutely believe this. And here, as in many other things, it is not knowledge, but only a little knowledge that forces, and instead of admiration for a recognized object, it puts admiration for the one who recognizes it.
Any reform other than moral reform is useless.
People should be more modest.
Metaphysics is the mind's attempt to rise above the mind.
One can adore something, even though it be very insignificant; but it is impossible to adore the purest, aching nonentity.
Silence is deep as eternity; conversations are shallow, like Time.
Music with its melody brings us to the very edge of eternity and gives us the opportunity to comprehend its greatness within a few minutes.
In our radiant sky there is always a dark spot - and this is our own shadow.
Cash is not the only connection between man and man.
As far as a person conquers fear, so much he is a person.
The present is the total taken.
Our destiny is not to try to see clearly what is distant from us and hidden in the fog, but to work on what is under us.
There is no more sad proof of the insignificance of a person than disbelief in great people.
There is no more moral law among people than the law of power and subordination.
No one knows what the crowd will do, especially the crowd itself.
Nothing teaches like the realization of one's mistake. This is one of the main means of self-education.
The new point of view is always in the minority...
Experience is the most the best teacher, only the tuition fee is too high.
Man's first duty is to overcome fear. As long as a person's hamstrings are shaking, his actions will remain slavish.
The writer is the same priest.
Hero worship should be expressed in the fact that we ourselves will be heroically disposed.
It is rightly said in all respects: every man is judged according to his faith. And in disbelief.
With every dispute, the moment we start to get angry, we stop fighting for the truth and enter into an argument already.
for themselves.
Nature does not tolerate lies.
Speech is the destiny of man; silence is the lot of God; but also the beast and death ... Therefore, we must comprehend both.
Anything can be proven with numbers.
The greatest guilt is not to admit one's guilt.
The worst feeling is the feeling of powerlessness.
The most terrible disbelief is disbelief in oneself.
The most miserable of people is the one for whom there is no work in the world.
Sentimental people are the most senseless of mortals...
How many people there are among the people who can generally see the invisible justice of heaven and know that it is omnipotent on earth - so many people stand between the people and its fall.
So much, and no more. The almighty heavenly power sends us more and more new people who have a heart of flesh, not of stone, but a severe misfortune, and already quite severe, will turn out to be people!
A blind person can go around the world and not notice anything.
Happy is that people whose annals are not in the history books.
One who has done nothing knows nothing.
Three main components modern civilization: Gunpowder, Seal and Protestantism.
Hundreds of people can endure hardships, only a few can bear well-being.
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-lived one.
Man must not complain about the times; nothing comes of it. Time is bad: well, that's what a person is for, to improve it.
A person cannot be irreparably bad if he laughed heartily at least once.
Man lives only in hope; hope is, in fact, his only property.
Economics is a sinister science ...
I think that respect for heroes, which manifests itself in different ways in different epochs, is the soul of social relations between people and that the way this respect is expressed serves as a true measure of the normality or abnormality of the relations prevailing in the world.
I do not pretend to comprehend the Universe - it is many times larger than me ...
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of ignorant individuals.
Thomas Carlyle - was born on December 4, 1795, in the city of Ecclefehan. British (Scottish) writer, historian and philosopher. The author of books - "History of the French Revolution", "Historical and critical experiments", "Heroes and the heroic in history", "Nibelungs" and others. He died on February 5, 1881 in London.
Aphorisms, quotes, sayings, phrases Thomas Carlyle
- Don't be a slave to words.
- History is the quintessence of gossip.
- If a person knows the measure, he knows everything.
- The present is the sum of the past.
- The history of the world is the biography of great people.
- The book is the purest essence of the human soul.
- Anything can be proven with numbers.
- Metaphysics is the mind's attempt to rise above the mind.
- The most terrible disbelief is disbelief in oneself.
- Each crown of glory is also a crown of thorns.
- Cash is not the only connection between man and man.
- As far as a person conquers fear, so much is he a person.
- Life is a very short time between two eternities.
- No one knows what the crowd will do, especially the crowd itself.
- A healthy person is the most precious product of nature.
- Silence is deep as eternity; conversations are shallow, like Time.
- The worst feeling is the feeling of powerlessness.
- Of all the nations in the world, the English are the dumbest in conversation and the smartest in action.
- Man lives only in hope; hope, in fact, is his only property.
- A person cannot be irreparably bad if he laughed heartily at least once.
- The greatness of a great man is revealed in the way he treats small people.
- There is no more sad proof of the insignificance of a person than disbelief in great people.
- As soon as we feel anger during an argument, we are already arguing not for the truth, but for ourselves.
- There is always a dark spot in our radiant sky, and this is our own shadow.
- In the field of literature, they will even go so far as to pay writers for what they did not write.
- The main organ of the human body, the unshakable foundation on which the soul rests, is the wallet.
- A person who does not know how to keep his opinions to himself is not capable of anything outstanding in any business.
- Become an honest person, and then you can be sure that there is one less rogue in the world.
- Each person has his own theater under his hat, where dramas unfold, often more complex than those given in theaters.
- Music with its melody brings us to the very edge of eternity and gives us the opportunity to comprehend its greatness within a few minutes.
- Two or three is already a Society. One will become God, the other the devil, one will speak from the pulpit, the other will hang under the crossbar.
- The ideal is in yourself. The obstacles to achieving it are in you. Your position is the material from which you must realize this ideal.
- If you want to keep a person from doing something, make him talk about it: the more people talk, the less they have the inclination to do.
- It is impossible to take a single step on this earth without coming into contact with the responsibility and duty that must be fulfilled.
Our destiny is not to try to see clearly what is remote from us and hidden in the fog, but to work on what we have at hand.
- Stupidity and good digestion are indispensable qualities for dealing with deprivation.
- Two or three is already a Society. One will become God, the other the devil, one will speak from the pulpit, the other will hang under the crossbar.
- If Jesus Christ appeared today, no one would crucify him. He would have been invited to dinner, listened to and laughed heartily.
- If you want to keep a person from doing something, make him talk about it: the more people talk, the less they have the inclination to do.
- If a person knows the measure, he knows everything.
- Health is a great thing both for the one who uses it and for others.
- Golden rain blurs all boundaries.
- The ideal is in you. The obstacles to achieving it are in you. Your position is the material from which you must realize this ideal.
- Of all rights, the most irrefutable is the right of the wise (whether by force or persuasion) to lead a fool.
- The history of the world is the biography of great people.
- History is the quintessence of gossip.
- The book is the purest essence of the human soul.
- Any reform other than moral reform is useless.
- People should be more modest.
- Silence is deep as eternity; conversations are shallow, like Time.
- Music with its melody brings us to the very edge of eternity and gives us the opportunity to comprehend its greatness within a few minutes.
- Cash is not the only connection between man and man.
- In our radiant sky there is always a dark spot - and this is our own shadow.
- As far as a person conquers fear, so much he is a person.
- The present is the sum of the past.
- Our destiny is not to try to see clearly what is remote from us and hidden in the fog, but to work on what we have at hand.
- Don't be a slave to words.
- There is no more sad proof of the insignificance of a person than disbelief in great people.
- There is no more moral law among people than the law of power and subordination.
- No one knows how the crowd will act, especially the crowd itself.
- Nothing teaches like the realization of one's mistake. This is one of the main means of self-education.
- The new point of view is always in the minority...
- Experience, in any case, takes a large price for teaching, but it teaches better than all teachers.
- Man's first duty is to overcome fear. As long as a person's hamstrings are shaking, his actions will remain slavish.
- Hero worship should be expressed in the fact that we ourselves will be heroically disposed.
- The writer is the same priest.
- It is rightly said in all respects: every man is judged according to his faith. And in disbelief.
- Nature does not tolerate lies.
- Speech is the destiny of man; silence is the lot of God, but also of the beast, and of death. Therefore, we must comprehend both arts.
- The greatest guilt is not to admit one's guilt.
- The worst feeling is the feeling of powerlessness.
- The worst disbelief is disbelief in yourself.
- The most miserable person is the one for whom there is no work in the world.
- Sentimental people are the most senseless of mortals.
- A blind person can go around the world and not notice anything.
- Anything can be proven with numbers.
- Happy is the people whose annals are not in the history books.
- Hundreds of people can endure hardships, only a few can bear well-being.
- Man must not complain about the times; nothing comes of it. Time is bad: well, that's what a person is for, to improve it.
- A person cannot be irreparably bad if he laughed heartily at least once.
- Man lives only in hope; hope is, in fact, his only property.
- Economics is a sinister science ...
- I do not pretend to comprehend the universe - it is many times larger than me.
- I do not believe in the collective wisdom of ignorant individuals.
