Thomas Carlyle Quotes on Human nature
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The uttered part of a man's life, let us always repeat, bears to the unuttered, unconscious part a small unknown proportion. He himself never knows it, much less do others.
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Man is a tool-using animal...Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
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Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.
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O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other.
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A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.