Thomas Carlyle war ein schottischer Essayist und Historiker, der im viktorianischen Großbritannien sehr einflussreich war. Wikipedia
„Das, was wir den Tod nennen, ist in Wahrheit der Anfang des Lebens.“
Thomas Carlyle buch Characteristics
Original engl.: "... and Death, what mortals call Death, properly the beginning of Life." - Critical and miscellaneous essays. A new edition. Vol. 5. Boston 1855, S. 301 (aus "Characteristics", Edinburgh Review 1831)
„Glücklich, wer seinen Beruf erkannt hat. Er verlange nach keinem andern Glück!“
Thomas Carlyle buch Past and Present
Past and Present, 1843, Book III, chapter XI: Labour
Original engl.: "Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness."
„Ein Register ohne Buch hat mir manchmal genützt, ein Buch ohne Register nie.“
Zitiert nach Ludwig Reiners: Stilkunst. München 1991, S. 509. ISBN 3406349854
Zugeschrieben
“The true University of these days is a Collection of Books.”
1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Man of Letters
Quelle: On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History
1850s, Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850), Stump Orator (May 1, 1850)
1840s, Past and Present (1843)
1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Prophet
1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Man of Letters
“Every noble work is at first impossible.”
From Past and Present (1843), Chapter XI : Labour
The Wikipedia page for Thomas Carlyle has links to the Project Gutenberg version of this book
1840s
Bk. I, ch. 5.
1830s, Sartor Resartus (1833–1834)
“He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.”
Introduction to Cromwell's Letters and Speeches (1845).
1840s
Bk. II, ch. 9.
1830s, Sartor Resartus (1833–1834)
1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Prophet
“A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.”
Quelle: 1840s, Chartism (1840), Ch. 2, Statistics.
Thomas Carlyle buch On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History
Thomas Carlyle, "On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History" (1841), pg. 64-67
1840s
1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero As King
“It depends on what we read, after all manner of Professors have done their best for us.”
1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Man of Letters
1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Divinity
“O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other.”
Pt. I, Bk. V, ch. 5.
1830s, The French Revolution. A History (1837)
“History is the essence of innumerable biographies.”
On History.
1820s, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827–1855)
On Napoleon; Carlyle in his essay on Mirabeau, 1837, quotes this from a "New England book".
1830s, Sir Walter Scott (1838)
1840s, Past and Present (1843)
On History.
1820s, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827–1855)
Variante: 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.
1850s, Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850), The Present Time (February 1, 1850)
“The history of the world is but the biography of great men.”
1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Divinity
