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
Every man is my superior in that I may learn from him.
Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.
In every object there is inexhaustible meaning.
Fame is no sure test of merit.
Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.
May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books.
The press is the fourth estate of the realm.
The great soul of this world is just.
Just in ratio as knowledge increases, faith diminishes.
If a man was great while living, he becomes tenfold greater when dead.
You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist - all he must learn are the two words "supply" and "demand."
All human things do require to have an ideal in them; to have some soul in them.
No mortal has a right to wag his tongue, much less to wag his pen, without saying something.
Produce, produce! Were it but the pitifulest, infinitesimal fraction of a product, produce it in God's name. 'Tis the utmost thou hast in thee? Out with it then! Up, up! Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy whole might.