Thomas Carlyle Quotes

“Great souls are always loyally submissive, reverent to what is over them; only small mean souls are otherwise.”

― Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes

topic:greatness soul

“The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.”

― Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes

“Ah, does not every true man feel that he is himself made higher by doing reverence to what is really above him?”

― Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes

“Scepticism means not intellectual Doubt alone, but moral Doubt; all sorts of infidelity, insincerity, spiritual paralysis.”

― Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes

topic:morality doubt

“Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil: it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.”

― Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes

topic:morality slavery

“Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.”

― Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes

topic:opinion

“To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow.”

― Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes

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