Ye are most strong, ye Sons of the icy North, of the far East, far marching from your rugged Eastern Wildernesses, hither-ward from the gray Dawn of Time! Ye are Sons of the Jotun-land; the land of Difficulties Conquered. Difficult? You must try this thing. Once try it with the understanding that it will and shall have to be done. Try it as ye try the paltrier thing, making of money! I will bet on you once more, against all Jo'tuns, Tailor-gods, Double-barrelled Law-wards, and Denizens of Chaos whatsoever!
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Thomas Carlyle
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Essays on Goethe
On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History
Past and Present
Sartor Resartus
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(Quoted by Thomas Carlyle) The rude man requires only to see something going on. The man of more refinement must be made to feel. The man of complete refinement must be made to reflect.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.
Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only.
The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.
The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
Clever men are good, but they are not the best.