Thomas Carlyle

Man always worships something; always he sees the infinite shadowed forth in something finite; and indeed can and must so see it in any finite thing, once tempt him well to fix his eyes thereon.

Thomas Carlyle

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

Thomas Carlyle

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

Thomas Carlyle

Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.

Thomas Carlyle

Men are grown mechanical in head and in the heart, as well as in the hand. They have lost faith in individual endeavour, and in natural force of any kind.

Thomas Carlyle

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

Thomas Carlyle

Men worship the shows of great men; the most disbelieve that there is any reality of great men to worship.

Thomas Carlyle

Men’s hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another and all against evil only.

Thomas Carlyle

Metaphysics is the attempt of the mind to rise above the mind.

Thomas Carlyle

Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour, but then centuries to try it in, they are found to be identical.

Thomas Carlyle