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
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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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.
What we might call, by way of eminence, the Dismal Science
No sadder proof can be given of a person's own tiny stature, than their disbelief in great people.
The great law of culture - and surely this convention before us now is a great law of culture - is: let each person become all that he was created equal of being. That is what this convention will help to achieve.
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.
Man is a tool-using Animal. Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden, - "Speech is silver, Silence is golden;" or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity
The first of all gospels is, that no lie lives forever.
Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.
In every object there is inexhaustible meaning.
Fame is no sure test of merit.