Thomas Carlyle

Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of nescience, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film.

Thomas Carlyle

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

Thomas Carlyle

Secrecy is the element of all goodness even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

Thomas Carlyle

See deep enough, and you see musically.

Thomas Carlyle

Shakespeare says, we are creatures that look before and after; the more surprising that we do not look around a little, and see what is passing under our very eyes.

Thomas Carlyle

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

Thomas Carlyle

Society is founded on hero-worship.

Thomas Carlyle

Speak not at all, in any wise, till you have somewhat to speak; care not for the reward of your speaking, but simply and with undivided mind for the truth of your speaking.

Thomas Carlyle

Speech is great, but silence is greater.

Thomas Carlyle

Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.

Thomas Carlyle