Quotes by Carlyle, Thomas

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to >>

For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desi >>

There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising >>

Quotations about Skepticism

Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so >>

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect. >>

Skepticism, is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, W >>

Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things. A sad case for him when all that he can manage to believe is something he can button in his pocket, and with one or the other organ eat and digest! Lower than that he will not get.

Carlyle, Thomas