Zitate von Thomas Carlyle
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Ein Mann lebt, weil er an etwas glaubt, nicht weil er über vieles debattiert und streitet.
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Schriftsteller, Historiker (Schottland, 1795 - 1881).
Thomas Carlyle · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
Thomas Carlyle wäre heute 228 Jahre, 11 Monate, 0 Tage oder 83.611 Tage alt.
Geboren am 04.12.1795 in Ecclefechan
Gestorben am 05.02.1881 in London
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Weitere 272 Zitate von Thomas Carlyle
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No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably depraved.
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No mortal has a right to wag his tongue, much less to wag his pen, without saying something.
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No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than himself dwells in the breast of man. It is to this hour, and at all hours, the vivifying influence in man's life.
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Of representative assemblies may not this good be said: that contending parties fight there, since fight they must, by petition (and) parliamentary eloquence, not by sword, bayonet and bursts of military cannon.
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Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
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One is weary of hearing about the omnipotence of money. I will say rather that, for a genuine man, it is not evil to be poor.
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One life - a little gleam of Time between two Eternities.
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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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Poetry we will call Musical Thought.
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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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Produce, produce! Were it but the pitifulest, infinitesimal fraction of a product, produce it in God's name. 'Tis the utmost thou hast in thee? Out with it then! Up, up! Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do it with thy whole might.
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Rest is a fine medicine. Let your stomachs rest, ye dyspeptics; let your brain rest, you wearied and worried men of business; let your limbs rest, ye children of toil!
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Rest is for the dead.
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Scepticism means not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt.
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See deep enough, and you see musically; the heart of nature being everywhere music, if you can only reach it.
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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are, for it shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.
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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.
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Surely of all 'rights of man', this right of the ignorant man to be guided by the wiser, to be, gently or forcibly, held in the true course by him, is the indisputablest.
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.