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Thomas Carlyle Quotes about History

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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Men, Greatness, History

On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic "The Hero as Divinity" (1841)

History: A distillation of rumor.

History, Rumor, Distillation

Thomas Carlyle (1857). “The French Revolution: a History: In Three Parts: I. the Bastille; II. the Constitution; III. the Guillotine : in Two Volumes”, p.200

I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.

Funny, Science, History

Parties on the back of Parties, at war with the world and with each other.

War, Party, History

Thomas Carlyle (2002). “The Life of Oliver Cromwell: With a Selection from His Letters and Speeches”, p.166, The Minerva Group, Inc.

The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.

Past, History, Whole

Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.99, CUP Archive

History is the essence of innumerable biographies.

Essence, History, Legacy

Critical and Miscellaneous Essays "On History" (1838) See Thomas Carlyle 12

Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.

Men, History, World

Thomas Carlyle (1840). “On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History”, p.3, CUP Archive

History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.

History, Historical, Theatre

Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers.

History, Kind, Newspapers

For, strictly considered, what is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?

History, Products

"The Works of Thomas Carlyle".

The whole past is the procession of the present.

Past, History, Whole

History is a great dust heap.

Dust, History

Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles.

History, Imagination, Cogs

In a certain sense all men are historians.

Men, History, Certain

Thomas Carlyle (1855). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: By Thomas Carlyle”, p.220

Armed Soldier, terrible as Death, relentless as Doom; doing God's judgement on the Enemies of God. It is a phenomenon not of joyful nature; no, but of awful, to be looked at with pious terror and awe.

History, Judgement, Soldier

Thomas Carlyle (1871). “Works”, p.144

Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.

Wise, Eye, History

Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: With Elucidations”, p.6

History after all is the true poetry.

Art, Philosophy, History

Thomas Carlyle, A.H.R. Ball (2005). “The French Revolution”, p.13, Courier Corporation

History is the new poetry.

History

At the bottom there is no perfect history; there is none such conceivable. All past centuries have rotted down, and gone confusedly dumb and quiet.

Past, History, Perfect

Thomas Carlyle, Oliver Cromwell, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.7, Cambridge University Press

All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible.

History, Inarticulate

Thomas Carlyle (1901). “Carlyle on Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History”

Great men are the inspired texts of that divine Book of Revelations, whereof a chapter is completed from epoch to epoch, and by some named History.

Book, Men, History

Thomas Carlyle (1846). “On Heroes, Hero-worship, & the Heroic in History: Six Lectures ; Reported, with Emendations and Additions”

It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.

History, Creeds, Poetry Is

Thomas Carlyle (2007). “The French Revolution: A History”, p.17, Modern Library

History is the distillation of rumour.

History, Rumours, Distillation

Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.

Past, Names, History

Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.36

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