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
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze
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?
It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are, for it shows me what your ideal of manhood is and what kind of man you long to be
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.
Macaulay is well for a while, but one wouldn't live under Niagara.
Love is not altogether a , yet it has many points in common therewith
Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another, and all against evil only.
What we might call, by way of eminence, the Dismal Science
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.
In books lies the soul of the whole past time.
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.