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
This London City, with all of its houses, palaces, steam-engines, cathedrals, and huge immeasurable traffic an tumult, what is it but a Thought, but millions of Thoughts made into One-a huge immeasurable Spirit of a Thought, embodied in brick, in iron, smoke, dust, Palaces, Parliaments, Hackney Coaches, Katherine Docks, and the rest of it! Not a brick was made but some man had to think of the making of that brick.
Speech is silver, silence is golden.
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
He that can work is born to be king of something.
Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.
Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.
A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against one other.
The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
Wonder is the basis of worship.
Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.