Thomas Carlyle
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Scottish essayist and historian (1795 to 1881); author of On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History.
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The history of what humans have accomplished is at bottom the history of great men (opens korrents.com)
“For, as I take it, 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.”
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Society and its ranks are founded on the worship of heroes (opens korrents.com)
“Society is founded on Hero-worship. All dignities of rank, on which human association rests, are what we may call a Heroarchy (Government of Heroes),—or a Hierarchy, for it is "sacred" enough withal!”
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Disbelief in great men is a sign of a person's own littleness (opens korrents.com)
“No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. There is no sadder symptom of a generation than such general blindness to the spiritual lightning, with faith only in the heap of…”
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The history of what humans have accomplished is at bottom the history of great men (opens korrents.com)