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
Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.
Life is a series of lessons that have to be understood.
The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself.
Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking?
Biography is the only true history.
He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.
In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.
A man's perfection is his work.
No person is important enough to make me angry.
If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.
One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.
Man's Unhappiness... comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, with which all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite... Try him with half of a Universe, of an Omnipotence, he sets to quarreling with the proprietor of the other half, and declares himself the most maltreated of men. Always there is a black spot in our sunshine: It is... the Shadow of Ourselves.