A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.
Thomas CarlyleThe difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
Thomas CarlyleMan is, and was always, a block-head and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and consider.
Thomas CarlyleTo say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.
Thomas Carlyle