435 ordspråk av Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle föddes den 4 desember 1795 och dog den 5 februar 1881 - leading figure in the Victorian era.
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The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.

The actual well seen is ideal.

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

Motgång är diamantdammet Himmelen slipar sina juveler med.

Adversity

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will

I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

Relationships

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

Latter

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Taushet

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.

No violent extreme endures.

In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by silence and by speech acting together, comes a double significance. In the symbol proper, what we can call a symbol, there is ever, more or less distinctly and directly, some embodiment and revelation of the Infinite; the Infinite is made to blend itself with the Finite, to stand visible, and as it were, attainable there. By symbols, accordingly, is man guided and commanded, made happy, made wretched.

Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.

We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or another meaning, has been called Inspiration, and held to be mysterious and inscrutable, is no longer without its scientific exposition. The building of the lofty rhyme is like any other masonry or bricklaying: we have theories of its rise, height, decline and fall -- which latter, it would seem, is now near, among all people.

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