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 weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something. The strongest, by dispensing his over many, may fail to accomplish anything. The drop, by continually falling, bores its passage through the hardest rock. The hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar, and leaves no trace behind.
In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
The best lesson which we get from the tragedy of Karbala is that Husain and his companions were rigid believers in God. They illustrated that the numerical superiority does not count when it comes to the truth and the falsehood. The victory of Husain, despite his minority, marvels me!
Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.
No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.
The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.
Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
True friends, like ivy and the wall Both stand together, and together fall.