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Thomas Carlyle Quotes

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

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

Man Animal Tools Nothing Without He

No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.

Eyes Two Ghost Seen Pair Every

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Wisdom Ignorance Believe Individual

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

Originality Quarrel Constantly Thing

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

Opinion New Starting Minority Every

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Love Knowledge Heart Beginning

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.

Man Me Honor You Know Kind

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

Nature Good Great Blue Better Over

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

Men Man Wise World Wise Man Know

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

Wait Imperfection Person Spin Off

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

Great Religion Gun Three Printing

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

Hope Man World Place Speaking He

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