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Thomas Carlyle Quotes about Lying

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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.

Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.

Lying, World, Recognition

"Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II". Book by Thomas Fuller, 1727.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

Motivational, Lying, Duty

Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes.

Lying, Raw Materials, Dupes

Thomas Carlyle, Chris Vanden Bossche (2002). “Historical Essays”, p.43, Univ of California Press

Why multiply instances? It is written, the Heavens and the Earth shall fade away like a Vesture; which indeed they are: the Time-vesture of the Eternal. Whatsoever sensibly exists, whatsoever represents Spirit to Spirit, is properly a Clothing, a suit of Raiment, put on for a season, and to be laid off. Thus in this one pregnant subject of CLOTHES, rightly understood, is included all that men have thought, dreamed, done, and been: the whole External Universe and what it holds is but Clothing; and the essence of all Science lies in the PHILOSOPHY OF CLOTHES.

Philosophy, Lying, Men

Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.58, Cambridge University Press

In books lies the soul fo the whole past time.

Lying, Book, Past

'On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic' (1841) 'The Hero as Man of Letters'

Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to heart: "Do the duty which lies nearest to thee," which thou know to be a duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.

Lying, Heart, Light

1833-4 Sartor Resartus, bk.2, ch.9.

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Time, Lying, Silence

'Critical and Miscellaneous Essays' (1838) 'Sir Walter Scott'.

A star is beautiful; it affords pleasure, not from what it is to do, or to give, but simply by being what it is. It befits the heavens; it has congruity with the mighty space in which it dwells. It has repose; no force disturbs its eternal peace. It has freedom; no obstruction lies between it and infinity.

Beautiful, Stars, Lying

Lies exist only to be extinguished.

Lying

What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it

Memories, Lying, Heart

Thomas Carlyle (1841). “On Heroes, Hero-Worship,&the Heroic in History. Six Lectures. Reported with emendations and additions”, p.41

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

Lying, Book, Magic

On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic "The Hero as Man of Letters" (1841)

The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only.

Lying, Men, Muhammad

Alas! while the body stands so broad and brawny, must the soul lie blinded, dwarfed, stupefied, almost annihilated? Alas! this was, too, a breath of God, bestowed in heaven, but on earth never to be unfolded!

Lying, Heaven, Soul

Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Sartor Resartus”, p.140

Good Christian people, here lies for you an inestimable loan; take all heed thereof, in all carefulness, employ it: with high recompense, or else with heavy penalty, will it one day be required back.

Christian, Children, Lying

Is not cant the materia prima of the devil, from which all falsehoods, imbecilities, abominations, body themselves, from which no true thing can come? For cant is itself the properly a double-distilled lie, the second power of a lie.

Lying, Devil, Body

Thomas Carlyle (1872). “The French Revolution: a History”, p.48

It is no very good symptom, either of nations or individuals, that they deal much in vaticination. Happy men are full of the present, for its bounty suffices them; and wise men also, for its duties engage them. Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what clearly lies at hand.

Wise, Distance, Lying

Thomas Carlyle (1872*). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Burns. Life of Heyne. German playwrights. Voltaire. Novalis. Signs of the times. On history. Appendix: Jean Paul Friedrich Richter's review of Madame De Stael's 'Allemagne.' Schiller, Goethe and Madame De Stael”

History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature, his earliest expression of what may be called thought.

Spiritual, Lying, Science

Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.55, CUP Archive

A background of wrath, which can be stirred up to the murderous infernal pitch, does lie in every man.

Lying, Anger, Men

Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Critical and miscellaneous essays, collected and republ”, p.315

A lie should be trampled on and extinguished wherever found. I am for fumigating the atmosphere when I suspect that falsehood, like pestilence, breathes around me.

Lying, Atmosphere, Pestilence

But deepest of all illusory Appearances, for hiding Wonder, as for many other ends, are your two grand fundamental world-enveloping Appearances, SPACE and TIME. These, as spun and woven for us from before Birth itself, to clothe our celestial ME for dwelling here, and yet to blind it, lie all-embracing, as the universal canvas, or warp and woof, whereby all minor Illusions, in this Phantasm Existence, weave and paint themselves. In vain, while here on Earth, shall you endeavor to strip them off; you can, at best, but rend them asunder for moments, and look through.

Lying, Two, Dwelling

Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.304, CUP Archive

In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.

Dream, Time, Lying

'On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic' (1841) 'The Hero as Man of Letters'

With union grounded on falsehood and ordering us to speak and act lies, we will not have anything to do. Peace? A brutal lethargy is peaceable; the noisome is peaceable. We hope for a living peace, not a dead one!

Peace, Lying, Unions

Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.185, Lulu.com

Venerable to me is the hard hand,--crooked, coarse,--wherein, notwithstanding, lies a cunning virtue, indispensably royal as of the sceptre of the planet.

Lying, Hands, Royal

Alas! we know that ideals can never be completely embodied in practice. Ideals must ever lie a great way off--and we will thankfully content ourselves with any not intolerable approximation thereto! Let no man, as Schiller says, too querulously "measure by a scale of perfection the meager product of reality" in this poor world of ours.

Lying, Reality, Men

Thomas Carlyle (1840). “On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History”, p.234, CUP Archive

Nature admits no lie.

Nature, Lying

1850 Latter-Day Pamphlets, no.5.

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