5 Thomas Carlyle Quotes on Human nature

Thomas Carlyle quotes on human nature

32. 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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39. Man is a tool-using animal...Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

41. 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.

60. O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other.

96. A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.