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Quotation from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle
“a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic”
On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History, Lecture II (The Hero as Prophet) (Project Gutenberg #1091)
The central criterion of the whole series, introduced while arguing that a false man could not have founded a lasting religion.
Citation: "a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic" — Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History, Lecture II (The Hero as Prophet) (Project Gutenberg #1091). (id on-heroes-hero-worship-q6)
