People/Thomas Carlyle/Quote

Thomas Carlyle1795–1881

The infinite, absolute character of Virtue has passed into a finite, conditional one; it is no longer a worship of the Beautiful and Good; but a calculation of the Profitable.

Thomas Carlyle on virtue

Signs of the Times (1829)

Quote and source from Wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0

Share

More from Thomas Carlyle

All 43 quotes from Thomas Carlyle

More about virtue

All 884 quotes about virtue