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
What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.
It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
What we might call, by way of eminence, the Dismal Science
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze
Man is a tool-using Animal. Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.
Wonderful ''Force of Public Opinion!'' We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes; follow the traffic it bids us, realize the sum of money, the degree of ''influence'' it expects of us, or we shall be lightly esteemed; certain mouthfuls of articulate wind will be blown at us, and this what mortal courage can front?
No sadder proof can be given of a person's own tiny stature, than their disbelief in great people.
Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
The sincere alone can recognize sincerity.
The All of Things is an infinite conjugation of the verb To do .
The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.