Thomas Carlyle Quotes

Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty intelligence, but also of the most unevolved mentality; in one place there is a highly developed and complex civilisation, in another a crude and simple polity.

I am never interested in the individual, but in the human species and its environment.

What time is it? It is by every star a different time, and each most falsely true.

Different cultures have different audiences.

Human nature is the same everywhere; the modes only are different.

There are always many sides to the truth.

I don't know whether I am different from other people. Perhaps I am. Perhaps no one has a personality, and people are inventing themselves in the context in which they find themselves.

We, as humans, have actually developed a sense of social responsibility. We have gone beyond our basic instincts.

We are not consistent. We have both these dark sides and some light as well.

Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other.

A tree weeps when cut down, a dog howls when beaten, but a man matures when offended.

I think as a person, I have a whole bunch of different sides to me.

As a child I was not interested in science. I was merely interested in things human, the human side of nature, if you like, and I continue to be interested in that. That's what motivates me.

The whole world has changed, so you just stay current with the world. There's nothing different in my language of how I say things.

love of truth, ordinary common truth recognizable to everyone, is the ruling passion of the novel.

It is well there is no one without fault; for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong to s different species.

I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It's a common failing.

Natural Man, in our current version, is a disgruntled adolescent.

Wild as man was, and disgusting as the more degraded tribes and communities were, the best of them, and all those from which further advance came, were marked by good qualities, or they could never have risen to a higher stage.

The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage.

I think humans are driven by othering people, by defining themselves by who they are not and who is different from them. Human beings are in love with othering.

Nations consist of individuals. It is for every individual to bring in a different quality - the quality of awakened consciousness - into their lives.

Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people whom they are meant to benefit, and not imposed upon them according to the simple rule of right.

Soul is a constant. It's cultural. It's always going to be there, in different flavors and degrees.