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
Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.
Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.
Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.
Song is the heroics of speech.
Over the times thou hast no power. . . . Solely over one man thou hast quite absolute power. Him redeem and make honest.
Variety is the condition of harmony.
Wealth of a man is the number of things which he loves and blesses which he is loved and blessed by.
Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.
The mystery of a person, indeed, is ever divine to him that has a sense for the godlike.
One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.
Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.