Thomas Carlyle Quotes About Evil
-
Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance; inseparable (for men) yet not hostile, only opposed.
→ -
Not one false man but doth uncountable evil.
→ -
Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another and all against evil only.
→ -
All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.
→ -
The dead are all holy, even they that were base and wicked while alive. Their baseness and wickedness was not they, was but the heavy and unmanageable environment that lay round them.
→ -
In the huge mass of evil as it rolls and swells, there is ever some good working toward deliverance and triumph.
→ -
How indestructibly the good grows, and propagates itself, even among the weedy entanglements of evil.
→ -
One is weary of hearing about the omnipotence of money. I will say rather that, for a genuine man, it is not evil to be poor.
→ -
There is no permanent place in this universe for evil... Evil may hide behind this fallacy and that, but it will be hunted from fallacy to fallacy until there is no more fallacy for it to hide behind.
→ -
Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
→ -
Evil, once manfully fronted, ceases to be evil; there is generous battle-hope in place of dead, passive misery; the evil itself has become a kind of good.
→ -
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
→
Related Authors
-
Oliver Cromwell Political leader -
Johann Gottlieb Fichte Philosopher -
Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist -
William Shakespeare Poet -
John Stuart Mill Philosopher -
Charles Dickens Writer -
William Wordsworth Poet -
T. Colin Campbell Biochemist -
Matthew Arnold Poet -
Thomas B. Macaulay Former Secretary at War -
William Holman Hunt Painter -
Arthur Schopenhauer Philosopher -
Jane Welsh Carlyle Writer -
James Anthony Froude Novelist -
Henry David Thoreau Author -
John Ruskin Art critic -
George Eliot Novelist -
-
Walter Scott Baronet Scott -
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Writer