Love is ever the beginning of knowledge as fire is of light.
Thomas CarlyleSome comfort it would have been, could I, like a Faust, have fancied myself tempted and tormented of the Devil; for a Hell, as I imagine, without Life, though only Diabolic Life, were more frightful: but in our age of Downpulling and Disbelief, the very Devil has been pulled down, you cannot so much as believe in a Devil. To me the Universe was all void of Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hostility: it was one huge, dead, immeasurable Steam-engine, rolling on, in its dead indifference, to grind me limb from limb.
Thomas CarlyleTags: depression cosmic-indifference
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth to rule. Not William the Silent only, but all the considerable men I have known, and the most undiplomatic and unstrategic of these, forbore to babble of what they were creating and projecting. Nay, in thy own mean perplexities, do thou thyself but hold thy tongue for one day: on the morrow, how much clearer are thy purposes and duties; what wreck and rubbish have those mute workmen within thee swept away, when intrusive noises were shut out! Speech is too often not, as the Frenchman defined it, the art of concealing Thought; but of quite stifling and suspending Thought, so that there is none to conceal. Speech too is great, but not the greatest. As the Swiss Inscription says: Sprecfien ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden (Speech is silvern, Silence is golden); or as I might rather express it: Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity.
Thomas CarlyleTags: eternity time silence silence-is-golden
The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief
Thomas CarlyleNot our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to lead us to heaven-ward, or magician and wizard to lead us hellward.
Thomas CarlyleTags: character-description cyrus-salem
If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.
Thomas CarlyleTags: reading books philosophy time
Piety does not mean that a man should make a sour face about things, and refuse to enjoy in moderation what his Maker has given.
Thomas CarlyleGo as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see further.
Thomas CarlyleTags: inspirational-attitude
ليس لنا أن نتطلع إلى هدفٍ يلوح لنا باهتاً من بعد ، وإنما علينا أن ننجز ما بين أيدينا من عمل واضح بيِّن.
Thomas CarlyleTags: life work goal achievement clear
Μια καλή συλλογή καλών βιβλίων είναι το αληθινό πανεπιστήμιο της εποχής μας
Thomas CarlyleTags: libraries βιβλιοθήκες
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