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
I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less.
If I had my way, the world would hear a pretty stern command - Exit Christ.
Laissez-faire, supply and demand-one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egotism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause-it is the gospel of despair.
Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading.
The greatest fault is to be conscious of none.
The king is the man who can.
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.
Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul.
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.
Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze.
Faith is loyalty to some inspired teacher, some spiritual hero.
The deadliest sin were the consciousness of no sin
He that has a secret to hide should not only hide it but hide that he has to hide it.
Oh, Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry a future Ghost within us; but are, in very deed, Ghosts!