Quotes by Thomas Carlyle

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

All great peoples are conservative.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

I don’t pretend to understand the Universe – it’s a great deal bigger than I am.

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

I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

What you see, but can’t see over is as good as infinite.

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.

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.