Quote

I came hither [Craigenputtoch] solely with the design to simplify my way of life and to secure the independence through which I could be enabled to remain true to myself.

Thomas Carlyle

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Way
Simplify
Life
Solely
Independence
Secure
Remain
Design
Came
Hither
True
Enabled

More quotes by Thomas Carlyle

Image
Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.
Thomas Carlyle
Image
Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one and there are certainly many more men whose history deserves to be recorded than persons willing and able to record it.
Thomas Carlyle
Image
No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.
Thomas Carlyle
Image
Before philosophy can teach by Experience, the Philosophy has to be in readiness, the Experience must be gathered and intelligibly recorded.
Thomas Carlyle
Image
The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.
Thomas Carlyle
Image
Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
Thomas Carlyle
Image
My books are friends that never fail me.
Thomas Carlyle
Image
Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.
Thomas Carlyle
Image
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
Thomas Carlyle
Image
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
Thomas Carlyle
Image
It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.
Thomas Carlyle
Image
A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.
Thomas Carlyle
Image
Statistics, one may hope, will improve gradually, and become good for something. Meanwhile, it is to be feared the crabbed satirist was partly right, as things go: A judicious man, says he, looks at Statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted on him.
Thomas Carlyle
Image
Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a Life-purpose... Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what real happiness is... Even in the meanest sorts of Labour, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work!
Thomas Carlyle
Image
Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect!
Thomas Carlyle
Image
Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.
Thomas Carlyle
Image
All human things do require to have an ideal in them to have some soul in them.
Thomas Carlyle
Image
If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.
Thomas Carlyle
Image
Habit is the deepest law of human nature
Thomas Carlyle
Image
Time is the silent, never-resting thing ... rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing oceantide, on which we and all the universe swim.
Thomas Carlyle