Laissez-faire, Supply-and-demand,—one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egoism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause:—it is the Gospel of Despair!Thomas Carlyle: Past and Present
Civilization
The three great elements of modern civilization, gunpowder, printing, and the Protestant religion.Thomas Carlyle: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays
Culture
The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.Thomas Carlyle: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays
Democracy
Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.Thomas Carlyle: Past and Present
Faults and Weaknesses
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.Thomas Carlyle: On Heroes, Hero- Worship and the Heroic in History
France and the French
France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams.Thomas Carlyle: The French Revolution
Government
In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom.Thomas Carlyle: Past and Present
Great and Small
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.Thomas Carlyle: On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History
History
History is the essence of innumerable biographies.Thomas Carlyle: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays
Minorities
Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.Thomas Carlyle: On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History
Originality
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.Thomas Carlyle: On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History
Perception
In everyobject there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.Thomas Carlyle: The French Revolution
Religion
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.Thomas Carlyle
Silence
Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity.Thomas Carlyle: Sartor Resartus
Speech and Speakers
Speech is too often not . . . the art of concealing Thought; but of quite stifling and suspending Thought.Thomas Carlyle: Sartor Resartus
The Self
The Ideal is in thyself, the impediment too is in thyself.Thomas Carlyle: Sartor Resartus
The World
This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.Thomas Carlyle: On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History
Work
Work is the grand cure for all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind,—honest work, which you intend getting done.Thomas Carlyle
