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Schriftsteller, Historiker (Schottland, 1795 - 1881).

Thomas Carlyle · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Thomas Carlyle wäre heute 229 Jahre, 5 Monate, 5 Tage oder 83.797 Tage alt.

Geboren am 04.12.1795 in Ecclefechan
Gestorben am 05.02.1881 in London
Sternzeichen: ♐ Schütze

• It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.

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• Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possesion - a property entirely our own. A greater vividness and permanency of impression is secured, and facts thus acquired become registered in the mind in a way that mere imparted information can never produce.

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• Labor is life; from the inmost heart of the worker rises his God-given force, the sacred celestial lifeessence breathed into him by Almighty God.

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• Labor is life.

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• Language is called the garment of thought: however, it should rather be, language is the flesh-garment, the body, of thought.

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• Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right, he will daily grow more and more right. It is at the bottom of the condition on which all men have to cultivate themselves.

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• Little other than a redtape talking-machine, and unhappy bag of parliamentary eloquence.

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• Macaulay is well for a while, but one wouldn't live under Niagara.

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• Maid-servants, I hear people complaining, are getting instructed in the 'ologies'.

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• Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one rascal less in the world.

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• Man is a tool-using animal . . . Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

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• Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

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• Man's unhappiness comes of his greatness; it is because there is an infinite in him, which, with all his cunning, he cannot quite bury under the finite.

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• Men's hearts ought not be set against one another, but set with one another, and all against evil only.

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• Metaphysics is the attempt of the mind to rise above the mind.

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• Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

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• Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish.

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• No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first.

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• No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or disbelieve.

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• No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offense.

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