Quote by Thomas Carlyle
“Que la vida del hombre es solamente un sueño ya se le había ocurrido a bastantes, y también a mi me acompaña por todas partes ese sentimiento. Cuando contemplo la limitación a que se hallan reducidas las fuerzas activas e inquisitivas del hombre; cuando veo que toda actividad tiende a la satisfacción de las necesidades, que a su vez no tienen más objeto que la de prolongar nuestra pobre existencia, y que toda tranquilidad sobre ciertos de la investigación no es más que una resignación fundada en los sueños, como cuando se pintan los muros donde estamos encarcelados con figuras multicolores y perspectivas luminosas.”
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Thomas Carlyle was a Scottish satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher during the Victorian era. He called economics "the dismal science", wrote articles for the Edinburgh Encyclopedia, and became a controversial social commentator.
Coming from a strict Calvinist family, Carlyle was expected by his parents to become a preacher, but while at the University of Edinburgh, he lost his Christian faith. Calvinist values, however, remained with him throughout his life. This combination of a religious temperament with loss of faith in traditional Christianity made Carlyle's work appealing to many Victorians who were grappling with scientific and political changes that threatened the traditional social order.