Thomas Carlyle Quotes on Mind (16 Quotes)

The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder -- waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.

Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.

Having a purpose in life, throw into your work such strength of mind and muscle as God has given you.

All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men.

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

The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Today is not yesterday we ourselves change how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same Change, indeed is painful yet ever needful and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Poetry we will call Musical Thought.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat... Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy.

Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow and precipitates itself there from. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him.

Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen. . .

Figure him there, with his scrofulous diseases, with his great greedy heart, and unspeakable chaos of thoughts stalking mournful as a stranger in this Earth eagerly devouring what spiritual thing he could come at. . .

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