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 Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him.
Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.
Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it?
Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
In books lies the soul fo the whole past time.
Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
A man lives by believing something.
This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.
The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.
Only the person of worth can recognize the worth in others.
That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.