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
Time has only a relative existence.
O Time! Time! how it brings forth and devours! And the roaring flood of existence rushes on forever similar, forever changing!
They have their belief, these poor Tibet people, that Providence sends down always an Incarnation of Himself into every generation. At bottom some belief in a kind of pope! At bottom still better, a belief that there is a Greatest Man; that he is discoverable; that, once discovered, we ought to treat him with an obedience which knows no bounds. This is the truth of Grand Lamaism; the "discoverability" is the only error here.
Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze.
The All of Things is an infinite conjugation of the verb To do .
One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!
The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.
Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile.
The mystery of a person, indeed, is ever divine to him that has a sense for the godlike.