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
Give us, O give us the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation what it may, he is equal to any of those who follow the same pursuit in silent sullenness. He will do more in the same time . . . he will do it better . . . he will persevere longer. One is scarcely sensible to fatigue while he marches to music. The very stars are said to make harmony as they revolve in their spheres.
Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.
There is but one thing without honor, smitten with eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be,-insincerity, unbelief.
He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.
A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker in the world?
The public is anold woman.Let her maunderand mumble.
The sincere alone can recognize sincerity.
The all importance of clothes has sprung up in the intellect of the dandy without effort, like an instinct of genius; he is inspired with clothes, a poet of clothes.