Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.
Thomas Carlyle
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
Essayist
Historian
Linguist
Literary Critic
Literary Historian
Mathematician
Novelist
Philosopher
Teacher
Translator
Writer
Philosopher of Chelsea
Growth
Philanthropic
Consumerism
Materialism
Philanthropy
Consumption
Kingdom
Kingdoms
Charity
More quotes by Thomas Carlyle
The latest gospel in this world is, know thy work and do it.
Thomas Carlyle
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
Thomas Carlyle
Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.
Thomas Carlyle
Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them.
Thomas Carlyle
A man ought to inquire and find out what he really and truly has an appetite for what suits his constitution and that, doctors tell him, is the very thing he ought to have in general. And so with books.
Thomas Carlyle
Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
Thomas Carlyle
If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.
Thomas Carlyle
In a different time, in a different place, it is always some other side of our common human nature that has been developing itself. The actual truth is the sum of all these.
Thomas Carlyle
Nothing ever happens but once in all this world. What I do now I do once for all. It is over and gone, with all its eternity of solemn meaning.
Thomas Carlyle
Science has done much for us but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film.
Thomas Carlyle
History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
Thomas Carlyle
I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
Thomas Carlyle
To the vulgar eye, few things are wonderful that are not distant
Thomas Carlyle
If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin.
Thomas Carlyle
I want to meet my God awake.
Thomas Carlyle
A judicious man looks at Statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted 'on him.
Thomas Carlyle
The meaning of song goes deep. Who in logical words can explain the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite, and lets us for a moment gaze into that!
Thomas Carlyle
Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists. It is in reality no longer expected or recognized as a virtue among men.
Thomas Carlyle
Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May but at length the season of summer does come.
Thomas Carlyle
Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.
Thomas Carlyle
