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
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For the ''superior morality,'' of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness to deny that this ''superior morality'' is properly rather an ''inferior criminality,'' produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion.
Love not Pleasure; love God.
What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me?
Love not pleasure; love God. This is the Everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved ...
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.
Love is ever the beginning of knowledge as fire is of light.
The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.
Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.
The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
Sarcasm is the language of the devil, for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it