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
Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.
I call the book of Job, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with the pen.
Dinners are defined as 'the ultimate act of communion;' men that can have communion in nothing else, can sympathetically eat together, can still rise into some glow of brotherhood over food and wine.
Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner.
We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings.
What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words.... Be not the slave of Words...
The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent.
The whole past is the procession of the present.
Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right, he will daily grow more and more right. It is at the bottom of the condition on which all men have to cultivate themselves.
Infinite is the help man can yield to man.
Thirty millions, mostly fools.
The age of miracles is forever here.
History is a great dust heap.
Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.