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
The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
Wonder is the basis of worship.
Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another and all against evil only.
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.
No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
The spiritual is the parent of the practical.