Frases de Thomas Carlyle (529 citas, página 10)

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Frases célebres de Thomas Carlyle

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“En lugar de decir que el hombre es el producto de las circunstancias, sería más acertado decir que el hombre es el arquitecto de las circunstancias.”

Thomas Carlyle

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“El silencio es tan profundo como la Eternidad, el habla es tan superficial como el tiempo.”

Thomas Carlyle

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“No te avergüences de tus errores. Nada puede enseñarnos mejor que nuestra comprensión de los mismos. Ésta es una de las mejores formas de autoeducación.”

Thomas Carlyle

“La educación y la cortesía abren todas las puertas.”

Thomas Carlyle

Fuente: [Villamarin Pulido], Luis Alberto. Superación personal: Tesoro de la sabiduría- Tomo II. Editorial Luis Villamarin, 2015. ISBN 9781512274851, p. 87.

“Aquel que no puede guardar sus pensamientos dentro de sí nunca llevará a cabo grandes cosas.”

Thomas Carlyle

Fuente: [Cantú Garza], Miqueas. «En la opinión.» 24 de mayo de 2015. http://www.laprensa.mx/notas.asp?id=362577 La Prensa. Consultado el 22 de febrero de 2019.

“El hombre hace menos de lo que debería, a menos que haga todo lo que puede.”

Thomas Carlyle

Original: «Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can». <br class="br">Fuente: [Balachandran], Mira. Quotation for all Occasions. Emerald Publishers. ISBN 9788179662427, p. 72. https://books.google.es/books?id=-1siBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA72&dq=Men+do+less+than+they+ought,+unless+they+do+all+they+can.+Thomas+Carlyle&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwijhf_m38_gAhWIAGMBHeiDB0QQ6AEIKzAA#v=onepage&q=Men%20do%20less%20than%20they%20ought%2C%20unless%20they%20do%20all%20they%20can.%20Thomas%20Carlyle&f=false

Frases de hombres de Thomas Carlyle

“De nada le sirve al hombre lamentarse de los tiempos en que vive, pero siempre le es posible mejorarlos.”

Thomas Carlyle

Fuente: [Martín], Santiago. La oscuridad luminosa. Editorial EDAF, 2016. ISBN 9788441436862. https://books.google.es/books?id=YGezDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT109&dq=De+nada+le+sirve+al+hombre+lamentarse+de+los+tiempos+en+que+vive,+pero+siempre+le+es+posible+mejorarlos.+Thomas+Carlyle&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwixj9L7zc_gAhWsyoUKHUC4CuIQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=De%20nada%20le%20sirve%20al%20hombre%20lamentarse%20de%20los%20tiempos%20en%20que%20vive%2C%20pero%20siempre%20le%20es%20posible%20mejorarlos.%20Thomas%20Carlyle&f=false

“Escrito está que el fin del hombre es la acción y no el pensamiento.”

Thomas Carlyle

“La adversidad pesa a veces muy duramente; pero por un hombre que pueda resistir la prosperidad se encuentra un centenar que resistirá la desgracia.”

Thomas Carlyle

Fuente: [Quevedo], Numa. La meta posible: visión continental. Prólogo de Agustín Rodríguez Garabito. Editorial Kelly, Bogotá, 1970, p. 284.

“La verdad es que el arte de escribir es la cosa más milagrosa de cuantas el hombre ha imaginado.”

Thomas Carlyle

Fuente: Noguera Trujillo, Héctor. 100 lecciones para aprendices de escritor. Panorama Editorial, 2005. ISBN 9789683813923, p. 90. https://books.google.es/books?id=_kloewDzZRAC&pg=PA90&dq=La+verdad+es+que+el+arte+de+escribir+es+la+cosa+m%C3%A1s+milagrosa+de+cuantas+el+hombre+ha+imaginado.+Thomas+Carlyle&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi0keno8M_gAhUG2xoKHWQtA4MQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=La%20verdad%20es%20que%20el%20arte%20de%20escribir%20es%20la%20cosa%20m%C3%A1s%20milagrosa%20de%20cuantas%20el%20hombre%20ha%20imaginado.%20Thomas%20Carlyle&f=false

“Nada levanta tanto a un hombre por encima de las pequeñas mezquindades de la vida como admirar, sea lo que sea o a quienquiera que sea.”

Thomas Carlyle

Fuente: [Benavent], Joan. Perón, luz y sombras: 1946-1955, la dictadura populista. Colección Memoria. Edición ilustrada. Editorial Letras e Imagos, 2006. p. 1.254.

“Ningún gran hombre vive en vano; la historia del mundo no pasa de ser la biografía de grandes hombres.”

Thomas Carlyle

Fuente: [Jacobo], Jesús Michel. Las venas abiertas de la Universidad. Editorial Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, 1998. ISBN 9789687636689, p. 64.

Frases de verdad de Thomas Carlyle

“La biografía es la única historia verdadera.”

Thomas Carlyle

“La verdadera universidad de hoy en día es una colección de libros.”

Thomas Carlyle

Fuente: [Palomo Triguero], Eduardo. Cita-logía. Editorial Punto Rojo Libros, S.L. ISBN 978-84-16068-10-4, p. 185.

“Nadie piensa ni cree que sean verdad las cosas que pretende considerar como indiscutibles.”

Thomas Carlyle

“No hay nada más espantoso que la elocuencia de un hombre que no dice la verdad.”

Thomas Carlyle

“Una verdadera pintura del más pequeño hombre es capaz de interesar al hombre más grande.”

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Thomas Carlyle Frases y Citas

“Una vez despertado el pensamiento no vuelve a dormitar.”

Thomas Carlyle

“Puede considerarse bienaventurado y no pedir mayor felicidad el hombre que ha encontrado su trabajo.”

Thomas Carlyle

Fuente: La palabra y los pensamientos. Editorial Encrucijada, 2005. ISBN 9789568542009. p. 228.

“¡El misterio! Sí, un misterio profundo nos envuelve. Cuanta más luz, más misterio.”

Thomas Carlyle

“Ahora veo que, en general, el sarcasmo es el lenguaje del demonio.”

Thomas Carlyle

“A menudo los grandes son desconocidos o peor, mal conocidos.”

Thomas Carlyle

Fuente: [Meisel L.], Roberto. Quevedo, Gracián, Feijoo: máximas y reflexiones ; Una carta procedente del infierno ; Jovellanos, paradigma de la Ilustración española. Editorial Tercer Mundo, 1996. ISBN 9789589541685, p. 279.

“Con números se puede demostrar cualquier cosa.”

Thomas Carlyle

Fuente: Matemáticas 4. Serie integral por competencias DGB. Autores Francisco José Ortiz Campos, Francisco Javier Ortiz Cerecedo, Fernando José Ortiz Cerecedo. Grupo Editorial Patria, 2000. ISBN 9786077440024, p. 167. https://books.google.es/books?id=MqGEBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA166&dq=Con+n%C3%BAmeros+se+puede+demostrar+cualquier+cosa.+Thomas+Carlyle&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiqwbqYzc_gAhVq1eAKHcWDD0gQ6AEILTAB#v=onepage&q=Con%20n%C3%BAmeros%20se%20puede%20demostrar%20cualquier%20cosa.%20Thomas%20Carlyle&f=false

“El asombro es la base de la adoración.”

Thomas Carlyle

Fuente: Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in. Thomas Carlyle. Editorial BoD – Books on Demand, 2018. ISBN 9783734027130, p. 64. https://books.google.es/books?id=OBpwDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA64&dq=Wonder+is+the+basis+of+worship.+Thomas+Carlyle&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwicm8zQ0s_gAhVQXBoKHUFtBgIQ6AEIOzAC#v=onepage&q=Wonder%20is%20the%20basis%20of%20worship.%20Thomas%20Carlyle&f=false

“El culto al heroísmo existe, ha existido y existirá para siempre en la conciencia de la humanidad.”

Thomas Carlyle

“El ideal está en ti; el obstáculo para su cumplimiento también.”

Thomas Carlyle

Fuente: [Palomo Triguero], Eduardo. Cita-logía. Editorial Punto Rojo Libros, S.L. ISBN 978-84-16068-10-4, p. 160.

“En general, el sarcasmo es el lenguaje del diablo.”

Thomas Carlyle

“Es peligroso empezar con negociaciones, y fatal terminar con ellas.”

Thomas Carlyle

“Hablar es el arte de sofocar e interrumpir el pensamiento.”

Thomas Carlyle

Fuente: El Lenguaje oral: fundamentos, formas y técnicas. Editorial Plus Ultra, 1984, p. 67.

“La contemplación es un lujo; la acción, una necesidad.”

Thomas Carlyle

“La esencia del humorismo es la sensibilidad, la cálida y tierna simpatía para todas las formas de existencia.”

Thomas Carlyle

“La experiencia es el mejor de los maestros, sólo que la matrícula es muy pesada.”

Thomas Carlyle

“La historia es la esencia de innumerables biografías.”

Thomas Carlyle

Fuente: [Suárez], Ada. El género biográfico en la obra de Eugenio d'Ors. Volumen 20 de Ambitos literarios: Ensayo. Edición ilustrada. Anthropos Editorial, 1988. ISBN 9788476580844, p. 215. https://books.google.es/books?id=t_tOszni-Q8C&pg=PA215&dq=La+historia+es+la+esencia+de+innumerables+biograf%C3%ADas.+Thomas+Carlyle&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjhrvve5s_gAhVkxYUKHXeRA9UQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=La%20historia%20es%20la%20esencia%20de%20innumerables%20biograf%C3%ADas.%20Thomas%20Carlyle&f=false

“La historia es la destilación del rumor.”

Thomas Carlyle

Sin fuentes <br class="br">Original: «History is the distillation of rumor». <br class="br">Fuente: Uncle John's Facts to Go History Makers. Volumen 1 de Facts to Go. Autor Bathroom Readers' Institute. Editorial Simon and Schuster, 2013. ISBN 9781626861572. https://books.google.es/books?id=SipZDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT37&dq=History+is+a+distillation+of+rumor.+Thomas+Carlyle&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjSjqHd58_gAhUmxYUKHZU5DJsQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=History%20is%20a%20distillation%20of%20rumor.%20Thomas%20Carlyle&f=false

“La mayor de las faltas, diría yo, es no tener conciencia de ninguna.”

Thomas Carlyle

“Liberar al mundo de toda clase de charlatanes es realmente obra muy digna de ser realizada. Son los tales la plaga única del mundo, y sin ellos dejaría de ser un mundo diabólico, miserable y maldito, comenzando a convertirse en un mundo divino, estancia de un bienestar siempre creciente.”

Thomas Carlyle

“No pienses nunca mal de nadie. Pensar mal es la mejor manera de que las buenas obras de los demás no te sirvan de edificación.”

Thomas Carlyle

“Puede ser un héroe tanto el que triunfa como el que sucumbe, pero jamás el que abandona el combate.”

Thomas Carlyle

Fuente: [Amate Pou], Jordi. Paseando por una parte de la Historia: Antología de citas. Editorial Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial España, 2017. ISBN 9788417321871, p. 74.

“Sé un hombre honesto y habrá en el mundo un pícaro menos.”

Thomas Carlyle

“Si se siembra la semilla con fe y se cuida con perseverancia, solo será cuestión de tiempo recoger sus frutos.”

Thomas Carlyle

Fuente: [Huertas], Abner Alexander. El crecimiento de un líder. Editorial Vida, 2013. ISBN 9780829764000. https://books.google.es/books?id=6ynuV0OtuPcC&pg=PT106&dq=Si+se+siembra+la+semilla+con+fe+y+se+cuida+con+perseverancia,+solo+ser%C3%A1+cuesti%C3%B3n+de+recoger+sus+frutos.+Thomas+Carlyle&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiH9LvI-M_gAhUd4OAKHfiZBT4Q6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=Si%20se%20siembra%20la%20semilla%20con%20fe%20y%20se%20cuida%20con%20perseverancia%2C%20solo%20ser%C3%A1%20cuesti%C3%B3n%20de%20recoger%20sus%20frutos.%20Thomas%20Carlyle&f=false

“Sólo en un mundo de hombres sinceros es posible la unión.”

Thomas Carlyle

“Somos el milagro de los milagros, el gran inescrutable misterio de Dios.”

Thomas Carlyle

Fuente: Los héroes. Thomas Carlyle. Volumen 1009 de Austral: Serie anaranjada : biografías y vidas novelescas. Traducido por Francisco Gallach Palés. 2ª edición. Editorial Espasa-Calpe Argentina, 1951. Página 17.

“Tarea delicada la de apaciguar muchedumbres, porque hacer mucho puede ser tan funesto como no hacer nada.”

Thomas Carlyle

Fuente: [Red], Samuel. Las mejores citas de provocación/Best provocation sayings: contra todo y contra todos. Coña fina. Editorial Grasindo, 2008. ISBN 9788479277802, p. 314.

“Un gran hombre demuestra su grandeza por la forma en que trata a los pequeños.”

Thomas Carlyle

Fuente: [Mora Caldas], Jorge. Temas que hacen pensar. 2016. ISBN 9789584681409, p. 223. https://books.google.es/books?id=bV8iDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA223&dq=Un+gran+hombre+demuestra+su+grandeza+por+la+forma+en+que+trata+a+los+peque%C3%B1os.+Thomas+Carlyle&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi_2fjT-s_gAhUDxoUKHc8JAqcQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=Un%20gran%20hombre%20demuestra%20su%20grandeza%20por%20la%20forma%20en%20que%20trata%20a%20los%20peque%C3%B1os.%20Thomas%20Carlyle&f=false

“Ya no es solo en el fulgurar de los astros, sino en la más insignificante hierbecilla, ¿No vemos por ventura a Dios si nos dedicamos a descubrirle con la luz de la inteligencia?”

Thomas Carlyle

“El universo no es sino un vasto símbolo de Dios.”

Thomas Carlyle

“El Universo no es más que un vasto símbolo de Dios: aun más, en rigor ¿qué es el hombre mismo sino un símbolo de Dios?”

Thomas Carlyle libro Sartor Resartus

Fuente: Sartor resartus: Vida y opiniones del Señor Teufelsdröckh, Volúmenes 1-2. Biblioteca sociológica internacional. Thomas Carlyle. Editorial Imp. de Henrich, 1905. Página 77.

“De la conquista podemos decir que no se ha producido jamás por la fuerza y la imposición brutal, pues no dura una conquista de esta naturaleza. La conquista, lo mismo que el poder de imposición, ha de aportar, cosa esencial en toda sociedad humana, algún beneficio consigo, o bien los hombres con toda su fuerza la rechazarán.”

Thomas Carlyle libro Past and Present

Fuente: [Alonso Piñeiro], Armando. Historia, volumen 1, números 2-4. Publicado en 1981, p. 120.
Fuente: Past and Present, 1843.
Fuente: Carlyle, Thomas. Past and Present. 2.ª Edición. Editorial Chapman and Hall, 1845.

Thomas Carlyle: Frases en inglés

“"By what method or methods can the able men from every rank of life be gathered, as diamond-grains from the general mass of sand: the able men, not the sham-able;—and set to do the work of governing, contriving, administering and guiding for us!" It is the question of questions. All that Democracy ever meant lies there: the attainment of a truer and truer Aristocracy, or Government again by the Best.”

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1850s, Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850), Downing Street (April 1, 1850)

“The Philosopher of this age is not a Socrates, a Plato, a Hooker, or Taylor, who inculcates on men the necessity and infinite worth of moral goodness, the great truth that our happiness depends on the mind which is within us, and not on the circumstances which are without us; but a Smith, a De Lolme, a Bentham, who chiefly inculcates the reverse of this,—that our happiness depends entirely on external circumstances; nay, that the strength and dignity of the mind within us is itself the creature and consequence of these. Were the laws, the government, in good order, all were well with us; the rest would care for itself! Dissentients from this opinion, expressed or implied, are now rarely to be met with; widely and angrily as men differ in its application, the principle is admitted by all.”

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1820s, Signs of the Times (1829)

“in the learned professions as in the unlearned, and in human things throughout, in every place and in every time, the true function of intellect is not that of talking, but of understanding and discerning with a view to performing!”

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1850s, Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850), Stump Orator (May 1, 1850)

“Europe has made much; great cities, great empires, encyclopaedias, creeds, bodies of opinion and practice: but it has made little of the class of Dante's Thought.”

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1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Poet

“Burns's Brother Gilbert, a man of much sense and worth, has told me that Robert, in his young days, in spite of their hardship, was usually the gayest of speech; a fellow of infinite frolic, laughter, sense and heart; far pleasanter to hear there, stript cutting peats in the bog, or such like, than he ever afterwards knew him. I can well believe it. This basis of mirth, a primal element of sunshine and joyfulness, coupled with his other deep and earnest qualities, is one of the most attractive characteristics of Burns. A large fund of Hope dwells in him; spite of his tragical history, he is not a mourning man. He shakes his sorrows gallantly aside; bounds forth victorious over them.”

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1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Man of Letters

“Nature admits no lie.”

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Latter Day Pamphlet, No. 5. (1850).
1820s, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827–1855)

“History a distillation of Rumour.”

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Pt. I, Bk. VII, ch. 5.
1830s, The French Revolution. A History (1837)

“The habits of study acquired at Universities are of the highest importance in after-life. At the season when you are in young years the whole mind is, as it were, fluid, and is capable of forming itself into any shape that the owner of the mind pleases to order it to form itself into. The mind is in a fluid state, but it hardens up gradually to the consistency of rock or iron, and you cannot alter the habits of an old man, but as he has begun he will proceed and go on to the last.”

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1860s, On The Choice Of Books (1866)

“He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem.”

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Life of Schiller.
1820s, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827–1855)

“With his sharp power of vision, resolute power of action, I doubt not he could have learned to write Books withal, and speak fluently enough;—he did harder things than writing of Books. This kind of man is precisely he who is fit for doing manfully all things you will set him on doing.”

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1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero As King

“I feel that these old Northmen wore looking into Nature with open eye and soul: most earnest, honest; childlike, and yet manlike; with a great-hearted simplicity and depth and freshness, in a true, loving, admiring, unfearing way.”

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1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Divinity

“With stupidity and sound digestion man may front much.”

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Bk. II, ch. 4.
1830s, Sartor Resartus (1833–1834)

“Wonder, indeed, is, on all hands, dying out: it is the sign of uncultivation to wonder.”

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1820s, Signs of the Times (1829)

“Probably some ninety-nine out of every hundred of our gifted souls, who have to seek a career for themselves, go this beaver road. Whereby the first half-result, national wealth namely, is plentifully realized; and only the second half, or wisdom to guide it, is dreadfully behindhand.”

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1850s, Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850), Stump Orator (May 1, 1850)

“It is truly a lordly spectacle how this great soul takes in all kinds of men and objects, a Falstaff, an Othello, a Juliet, a Coriolanus; sets them all forth to us in their round completeness; loving, just, the equal brother of all. Novum Organum, and all the intellect you will find in Bacon, is of a quite secondary order; earthy, material, poor in comparison with this. Among modern men, one finds, in strictness, almost nothing of the same rank. Goethe alone, since the days of Shakspeare, reminds me of it. Of him too you say that he saw the object; you may say what he himself says of Shakspeare: 'His characters are like watches with dial-plates of transparent crystal; they show you the hour like others, and the inward mechanism also is all visible.”

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1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Poet

“No lie you can speak or act but it will come, after longer or shorter circulation, like a Bill drawn on Nature's Reality, and be presented there for payment, — with the answer, No effects.”

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Pt. I, Bk. III, ch. 1.
1830s, The French Revolution. A History (1837)

“I plead guilty to valuing such a man beyond all other sorts of men. Smooth-shaven Respectabilities not a few one finds, that are not good for much. Small thanks to a man for keeping his hands clean, who would not touch the work but with gloves on!”

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1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero As King

“The built house seems all so fit,- everyway as it should be, as if it came there by its own law and the nature of things,- we forget the rude disorderly quarry it was shaped from. The very perfection of the house, as if Nature herself had made it, hides the builder's merit. Perfect, more perfect than any other man, we may call Shakspeare in this: he discerns, knows as by instinct, what condition he works under, what his materials are, what his own force and its relation to them is. It is not a transitory glance of insight that will suffice; it is deliberate illumination of the whole matter; it is a calmly seeing eye; a great intellect, in short. How a man, of some wide thing that he has witnessed, will construct a narrative, what kind of picture and delineation he will give of it,- is the best measure you could get of what intellect is in the man. Which circumstance is vital and shall stand prominent; which unessential, fit to be suppressed; where is the true beginning, the true sequence and ending? To find out this, you task the whole force of insight that is in the man. He must understand the thing; according to the depth of his understanding, will the fitness of his answer be.”

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1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Poet

“To all men it is evident that the social interests of one hundred and fifty Millions of us depend on the mysterious industry there carried on; and likewise that the dissatisfaction with it is great, universal, and continually increasing in intensity,—in fact, mounting, we might say, to the pitch of settled despair.”

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1850s, Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850), Downing Street (April 1, 1850)

“On the whole, we will repeat that this Religion of Mahomet's is a kind of Christianity; has a genuine element of what is spiritually highest looking through it, not to be hidden by all its imperfections. The Scandinavian God Wish, the god of all rude men, — this has been enlarged into a Heaven by Mahomet; but a Heaven symbolical of sacred Duty, and to be earned by faith and well-doing, by valiant action, and a divine patience which is still more valiant. It is Scandinavian Paganism, and a truly celestial element superadded to that. Call it not false; look not at the falsehood of it, look at the truth of it. For these twelve centuries, it has been the religion and life-guidance of the fifth part of the whole kindred of Mankind. Above all things, it has been a religion heartily believed. These Arabs believe their religion, and try to live by it! No Christians, since the early ages, or only perhaps the English Puritans in modern times, have ever stood by their Faith as the Moslem do by theirs, — believing it wholly, fronting Time with it, and Eternity with it.”

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1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Prophet

“He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide.”

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Pt. II, Bk. I, ch. 7.
1830s, The French Revolution. A History (1837)

“We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we can find nowhere in his works, that "ridicule is the test of truth."”

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Thomas Carlyle libro Characteristics

Voltaire, Foreign Review, (1829); compare: "How comes it to pass, then, that we appear such cowards in reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the test of ridicule?", Shaftesbury, Characteristics. A Letter concerning Enthusiasm, sect. 2.; "Truth, 't is supposed, may bear all lights; and one of those principal lights or natural mediums by which things are to be viewed in order to a thorough recognition is ridicule itself", Shaftesbury, Essay on the Freedom of Wit and Humour, sect. 1.; "'T was the saying of an ancient sage [Gorgias Leontinus, apud Aristotle's "Rhetoric," lib. iii. c. 18], that humour was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour. For a subject which would not bear raillery was suspicious; and a jest which would not bear a serious examination was certainly false wit", ibid. sect. 5.
1820s, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827–1855)

“I shall now no more behold my dear father with these "bodily eyes. With him a whole threescore and ten years of the past has doubly died for me. It is as if a new leaf in the great hook of time were turned over. Strange time — endless time or of which I see neither end nor beginning. All rushes on. Man follows man. His life is as a tale that has been told; yet under Time does there not lie Eternity? Perhaps my father, all that essentially was my father, is even now near me, with me. Both he and I are with God. Perhaps, if it so please God, we shall in some higher state of being meet one another, recognize one another. As it is written. We shall be forever with God. The possibility, nay (in some way), the certainty, of perennial existence daily grows plainer to me. "The essence of whatever was, is, or shall be, even now is." God is great. God is good. His will be done, for it will be right. As it is, I can think peaceably of the departed love. All that was earthly, harsh, sinful, in our relation has fallen away; all that was holy in it remains. I can see my dear father's life in some measure as the sunk pillar on which mine was to rise and be built; the waters of time have now swelled up round his (as they will round mine); I can see it all transfigured, though I touch it no longer. I might almost say his spirit seems to have entered into me (so clearly do I discern and love him); I seem to myself only the continuation and second volume of my father. These days that I have spent thinking of him and of his end are the peaceablest, the only Sabbath that I have had in London. One other of the universal destinies of man has overtaken me. Thank Heaven, I know, and have known, what it is to be a son; to love a father, as spirit can love spirit. God give me to live to my father's honor and to His. And now, beloved father, farewell for the last time in this world of shadows I In the world of realities may the Great Father again bring us together in perfect holiness and perfect love! Amen!”

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Thomas Carlyle

1880s, Reminiscences (1881)

“Every pitifulest whipster that walks within a skin has had his head filled with the notion that he is, shall be, or by all human and divine laws ought to be, 'happy.' His wishes, the pitifulest whipster's, are to be fulfilled for him; his days, the pitifulest whipster's, are to flow on in an ever-gentle current of enjoyment, impossible even for the gods. The prophets preach to us, Thou shalt be happy; thou shalt love pleasant things, and find them. The people clamor, Why have we not found pleasant things?… God's Laws are become a Greatest Happiness Principle. There is no religion; there is no God; man has lost his soul.”

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Bk. III, ch. 4.
1840s, Past and Present (1843)

“But the thing a man does practically believe (and this is often enough without asserting it even to himself, much less to others); the thing a man does practically lay to heart, and know for certain, concerning his vital relations to this mysterious Universe, and his duty and destiny there, that is in all cases the primary thing for him, and creatively determines all the rest. That is his religion; or, it may be, his mere scepticism and no-religion: the manner it is in which he feels himself to be spiritually related to the Unseen World or No-World; and I say, if you tell me what that is, you tell me to a very great extent what the man is, what the kind of things he will do is.”

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1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Divinity