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
A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.
The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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