Necessity dispenseth with decorum.

Quote by Thomas Carlyle

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No pressure, no diamonds.

No pressure, no diamonds.

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...

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 an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and...

What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and...

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

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...

Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other...

Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other...

Manners are stronger than laws

Manners are stronger than laws

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A...

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A...

Be not a slave of words.

Be not a slave of words.

No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.

No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.

Ridicule is the language of the devil

Ridicule is the language of the devil

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...

What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and...

What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and...

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament...

The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament...

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred...

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred...