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 sadder proof can be given of a person's own tiny stature, than their disbelief in great people.
If the cut of the costume indicates intellect and talent, then the color indicates temper and heart.
For every one hundred men who can stand adversity there is only one who can withstand prosperity.
Tell a man he is brave, and you help him to become so
The heart always sees before than the head can see.
If a book comes from the heart it will contrive to reach other hearts. All art and author craft are of small account to that.
Action hangs, as it were, ''dissolved'' in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him.
It is not a lucky word, this name ''impossible''; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.
No sooner is your ocean filled, than he grumbles that it might have been of better vintage. Try him with half of a Universe, of an Omnipotence, he sets to quarrelling with the proprietor of the other half, and declares himself the most maltreated of men. Always there is a black spot in our sunshine: it is even as I said, the Shadow of Ourselves.
For one man that can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
That monstrous tuberosity of civilized life, the capital of England.
As a first approximation, I define "belief" not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.
Sarcasm is the language of the devil, for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it
For all right judgment of any man or thing it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad