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
No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.
A thought once awakened does not again slumber.
Does not every true man feel that he is himself made higher by doing reverence to what is really above him?
Our very walking is an incessant falling; a falling and a catching of ourselves before we come actually to the pavement. It is emblematic of all things a man does.
Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.
Violence does even justice unjustly.
He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.
Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident.
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
In books lies the soul of the whole past time.
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.
This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.