Thomas Carlyle Quotes on Mind
Thomas Carlyle was a Scottish essayist, historian, and philosopher and one of the most prominent Victorian moral voices. This page collects quotes attributed to Thomas Carlyle on the topic of mind, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Thomas Carlyle:
“Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.”
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“Hadst thou not Greek enough to understand thus much: The end of man is an Action, and not a Thought , though it were the noblest.”
Sartor Resartus(1833–1834) | Bk. II, ch. 5 The words Carlyle put in italics are a quotation from Book 1 of Aristotle 's Nicomachean Ethics . -
“The eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing."”
Critical and Miscellaneous Essays(1827–1855) | Varnhagen von Ense's Memoirs. -
“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.”
Sartor Resartus(1833–1834) | Bk. II, ch. 4. -
“These are the two vices that beset Government Offices; both of them originating in insufficient Intellect,—that sad insufficiency from which, directly or indirectly, all evil whatsoever springs!”
Downing Street (April 1, 1850)