Inspirational Quotes by Thomas Carlyle

“the worst waste, that of time.”

“do they know when we are well and happy? do they know when we recall their memories with the fondest love? In the silent hour of evening the shade of my mother hovers around me; when seated in the midst of my children, I see them assembled near me, as they used to assemble near her; and then I raise my anxious eyes to heaven, and wish she could look down upon us, and witness how I fulfil the promise I made to her in her last moments, to be a mother to her children.”

“Not what I Have," continues he, "but what I Do is my Kingdom.”

“God knows, I often lie down to sleep with the desire, even sometimes the hope, not to wake up again.”

“Fool! The Ideal is in thyself, the impediment too is in thyself: thy Condition is but the stuff thou art to shape that same Ideal out of: what matters whether such stuff be of this sort or that, so the Form thou give it be heroic, be poetic? O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create, know this of a truth: the thing thou seekest is already with thee, ‘here or nowhere,’ couldst thou only see!”

“ماذا يفيدني أن أقول اليوم، مع كل تلميذٍ، إن الأرض كرةٌ؟ وهل يحتاج المرء إلا إلى قطعةٍ يسكن إليها في حياته، وإلى حفرةٍ يرتاح فيها بعد مماته؟”

“الإنسان بالغباء وحسن الهضم يستطيع أن يواجه الكثير من الحياة))”

“. . . everywhere a good and a bad book”

“We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavour to efface them.”

“وأي دليل أشهر ببراءة الإسلام من الميل إلى الملاذ من شهر رمضان تلجم فيه الشهوات، وتزجر النفس عن غاياتها، وتقرع عن مآربها؟ وهذا هو منتهى العقل والحزم. فإن مباشرة اللذات ليس بالمنكر. وإنما المنكر هو أن تذل النفس لجبار الشهوات، وتنقاد لحادى الأوطار والرغبات. ولعل أمجد الخصال وأشرف المكارم هو أن يكون للمرء من نفسه على نفسه سلطان، وأن يجعل من لذاته لا سلاسل وأغلالا تعيبه وتعتاص عليه إذا هم أن يصدعها، بل حُلِيًّا وزخارف متى شاء فلا أهون عليه من خلعها، ولا أسهل من نزعها. وكذلك أمر رمضان سواء كان مقصودا من محمد معينًا، أو كان وحي الغريزة وإلهامًا فطريًّا فهو والله نعم الأمر”

“The greatest university is a collection of books.”

“The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist”

“Her şeyi kendimizle, kendimizi de herkesle karşılaştıracak şekilde yaratılmışız bir kere, bundan dolayı mutluluk ve hüznümüz bağlı olduğumuz şeylerden etkileniyor kuşkusuz, bu durumda en tehlikeli şey de yalnızlık. Doğası gereği kendini aşmaya zorlanan, edebiyatın fantastik imgeleriyle beslenen hayal gücümüz, kendimizin en aşağıda bulunduğu bir dizi varlığı sıraya sokuyor, dışımızdaki her şey daha güzel, bizden başka herkes daha mükemmelmiş gibi görünüyor. Ve bu çok doğal bir akış içinde gerçekleşiyor. Bazı şeylerin bizde eksik olduğunu çok sık duyumsuyoruz, eksikliğini duyduğumuz şey de çoğunlukla bir başkasında varmış gibi geliyor bize, sahip olduklarımızın yanı sıra yüceltilen bir parça gönül huzurunu bile ona layık görüyoruz. Böylece şanslı kişinin, yani bizim hayal ürünümüz olan kişinin hiçbir eksiği kalmıyor. Oysa bütün zafiyetlerimiz ve dertlerimizle yolumuzdan sapmadan çalışmaya devam etsek, başkalarının yelkenleri ve kürekleriyle ilerlediği yolda biz dolaşıp zikzaklar çizdiğimiz halde öne geçtiğimizi sıklıkla göreceğiz-ve-elbette insan bunu ancak başkalarıyla aynı konuma gelince veya onların önüne geçince anlayabiliyor.”

“Great men taken up in any way are profitable company. We cannot look, however imperfectly, upon a great man without gaining something by him.”

“The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.”

“A well-written life is almost as rare as one well-spent.”

“Îmi preţuieşte inteligenţa şi talentele mai mult decât inima, care e totuşi singura mea mândrie, care e singurul izvor al oricărei forţe, al oricărei fericiri, al oricărui necaz. Ah, ceea ce ştiu poate şti oricine, dar inima mea e numai a mea!”

“Economic things matter only in so far as they make people happier." Andrew Oswald British economist (1953–)”

“Look around you. Your world-hosts are all in mutiny, in confusion, destitution; on the eve of fiery wreck and madness! They will not march farther for you, on the sixpence a day and supply-demand principle; they will not; nor ought they, nor can they. Ye shall reduce them to order, begin reducing them. to order, to just subordination; noble loyalty in return for noble guidance. Their souls are driven nigh mad; let yours be sane and ever saner.”

“What is Democracy; this huge inevitable Product of the Destinies, which is everywhere the portion of our Europe in these latter days? There lies the question for us. Whence comes it, this universal big black Democracy; whither tends it; what is the meaning of it? A meaning it must have, or it would not be here. If we can find the right meaning of it, we may, wisely submitting or wisely resisting and controlling, still hope to live in the midst of it; if we cannot find the right meaning, if we find only the wrong or no meaning in it, to live will not be possible!—The whole social wisdom of the Present Time is summoned, in the name of the Giver of Wisdom, to make clear to itself, and lay deeply to heart with an eye to strenuous valiant practice and effort, what the meaning of this universal revolt of the European Populations, which calls itself Democracy, and decides to continue permanent, may be.”