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
The mystery of a person, indeed, is ever divine to him that has a sense for the godlike.
One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.
Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.
Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.
All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale.
Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
No age seemed the age of romance to itself.
Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.
To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.