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
What is philosophy but a continual battle against custom?
Of all God's creatures, Man alone is poor.
The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
To each is given a certain inward talent, a certain outward environment or fortune; to each by wisest combination of these two, a certain maximum capacity.
The mathematics of high achievement
Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us?
Quackery gives birth to nothing; gives death to all things.
See deep enough, and you see musically.
I know so little about any history. How little do I know even about the history of myself.
The times are very bad. Very well, you are there to make them better.
There must be a new world if there is to be any world at all!... These days of universal death must be days of universal new birth, if the ruin is not to be total and final! It is Time to make the dullest man consider; and ask himself, Whence he came? Whither he is bound?
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.
Hunger whets everything, especially Suspicion and Indignation.
Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.