A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

Quote by Thomas Carlyle

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One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes...

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes...

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Necessity dispenseth with decorum.

Necessity dispenseth with decorum.

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the...

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the...

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-cancelling business: and gives in the long...

Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-cancelling business: and gives in the long...

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

The man who cannot laugh is not only fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils; but...

The man who cannot laugh is not only fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils; but...

Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the...

Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the...

The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had...

The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had...

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with...

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with...

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation...

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation...

Laissez-faire, Supply-and-demand, - one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egoism,...

Laissez-faire, Supply-and-demand, - one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egoism,...

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its...

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its...

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn...

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn...

Worship is transcendent wonder.

Worship is transcendent wonder.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this...

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this...