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
Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans that of--the air!
There is no permanent place in this universe for evil... Evil may hide behind this fallacy and that, but it will be hunted from fallacy to fallacy until there is no more fallacy for it to hide behind.
Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately at all; and there she but maunders and mumbles.
We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness.
A man must indeed be a hero to appear such in the eyes of his valet.
Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.
All comes out even at the end of the day.
All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible.
Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
A lie should be trampled on and extinguished wherever found. I am for fumigating the atmosphere when I suspect that falsehood, like pestilence, breathes around me.
Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with; as if, observes our author himself, any originality but our own could be expected to content us! In fact all strange thing are apt, without fault of theirs, to estrange us at first view, and unhappily scarcely anything is perfectly plain, but what is also perfectly common.
Laws themselves, political Constitutions, are not our Life; but only the house wherein our Life is led.
He who takes not counsel of the Unseen and Silent, from him will never come real visibility and speech.
To a shower of gold most things are penetrable.