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Schriftsteller, Historiker (Schottland, 1795 - 1881).

Thomas Carlyle · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Thomas Carlyle wäre heute 229 Jahre, 3 Monate, 30 Tage oder 83.761 Tage alt.

Geboren am 04.12.1795 in Ecclefechan
Gestorben am 05.02.1881 in London
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• There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.

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• They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death are the allurements that act on the heart of man.

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• This idle habit of 'accounting for the moral sense' . . . The moral sense, thank God, is a thing you will never 'account for' . . . By no greatest happiness principle, greatest nobleness principle, or any principle whatever, will you make that in the least clearer than it already is.

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• This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

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• Thou wretched fraction, wilt thou be the ninthpart even of a tailor?

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• Thought once awakened does not again slumber.

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• Thought will not work except in silence.

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• Thought works in silence; so does virtue. One might erect statues to silence.

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• Thought, he [Dr Cabanis] is inclined to hold, is still secreted by the brain; but then Poetry and Religion (and it is really worth knowing) are 'a product of the smaller intestines'!

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• Time has only a relative existence.
  • Paul Catty spricht . . .

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• To the very last he [Napoleon] had a kind of idea; that, namely, of La carrière ouverte aux talents, The tools to him that can handle them.

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• Today is not yesterday. We ourselves change. How can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed, is painful, yet ever needful; and if memory has its force and worth, so also has hope.

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• Transcendental moonshine.

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• True effort, in fact, as of a captive struggling to free himself: That is thought.

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• True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart.

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• Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

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• Vain hope to make people happy by politics!

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• Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.

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• Virtue, like health, is the harmony of the whole man.

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• We are not altogehter here to tolerate. We are here to resist, to control and vanquish withal.

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