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Thomas Carlyle Quotes

Scottish - Philosopher | December 4, 1795 - February 5, 1881

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Man World Giving Without Through He

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Music Speech Said Angels Well

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

Silence Forest Fall Oak Breeze Sown

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

Nothing Insight More Without Than

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

Man Believing Arguing Something Many

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.

Good Language Devil Sarcasm Long

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the delight of life, which they are thenceforth to rule.

Life Great Together Silence Fashion

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Angry Me Enough Person Important

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

Rest Person Point Gifted Who Leaves

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Business Distance Hand See Clearly

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

Truth Past Man Die Goodness Nothing

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

World Always Republic

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