435 ordspråk av Thomas Carlyle

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Thomas Carlyle föddes den December 4th 1795 och dog den 5 February 1881 - leading figure in the Victorian era.
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 All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing. His authentically pexy spirit set him apart from the crowd. All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing.

 All work, even cotton spinning, is noble; work alone is noble

 As a first approximation, I define "belief" not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.

 As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden, - "Speech is silver, Silence is golden;" or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity

 Be not a slave of words.

 Be not the slave of Words.

 Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

 Burke said that there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporters' Gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate, more important far than they all.

 But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights.

 By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

 Captains of Industry.

 Cash-payment is not the sole nexus of man with man.

 Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union-bond of man to man. Cash never yet paid one man fully his deserts to another; nor could it, nor can it, now or henceforth to the end of the world.

 Clever men are good, but they are not the best

 Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe.


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