Skip to content

Thomas Carlyle on Progress

1795–1881 Scotland

← All quotes by Thomas Carlyle

3 quotes

Hadst thou not Greek enough to understand thus much: The end of man is an Action, and not a Thought, though it were the noblest.

Sartor Resartus (1833)

What is done is done; has already blended itself with the boundless, ever living, ever working universe, and will also work there for good or evil, openly or secretly, throughout all time.

Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Signs of the Times (1829)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Thomas Carlyle (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.