Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlylewas a Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher. Considered one of the most important social commentators of his time, he presented many lectures during his lifetime with certain acclaim in the Victorian era. One of those conferences resulted in his famous work On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History where he explains that the key role in history lies in the actions of the "Great Man", claiming that "History is nothing but the biography of the...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth4 December 1795
Laws themselves, political Constitutions, are not our Life; but only the house wherein our Life is led.
He who takes not counsel of the Unseen and Silent, from him will never come real visibility and speech.
To a shower of gold most things are penetrable.
It is well said, in every sense, that a man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him.
Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.
I never heard tell of any clever man that came of entirely stupid people.
Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
To believe practically that the poor and luckless are here only as a nusiance to be abraded and abated, and in some permissable manner made away with, and swept out of sight, is not an amiable faith.
Love not Pleasure; love God.
Not only was Thebes built by the music of an Orpheus; but without the music of some inspired Orpheus was no city ever built, no work that man glories in ever done.
Work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at all things.
Prayer is and remains always a native and deepest impulse of the soul of man.
Such is the world. Understand it, despise it, love it; cheerfully hold on thy way through it, with thy eye on highest loadstars!
The All of Things is an infinite conjugation of the verb To do .