Thomas Carlyle Quotes

To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it.

Everyone is living for everyone else now. They're doing stuff so they can tell other people about it. I don't get all that social media stuff, I've always got other things I want to do - odd jobs around the house. No one wants to hear about that.

Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: 'Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?'

For a long time, I consciously tried to be a good person for others. Not anymore. Caring about other people keeps me in line, but I've decided to just be myself.

If you try to use your head to think about things, people don't want to have anything to do with you

Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist.

The fact that I have an ideology, however, doesn't mean I'm indoctrinated.

The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.

Why do you have to be the same as the others? ...Most of them are stupid.

You're not really free until you're free from trying to please everybody.

I decided when I was 19 that I didn't like all these stereotypes that I was supposed to fit into. I wasn't comfortable and they made me very unhappy. So I tried and I spent a miserable summer, and then I went back to school and said, 'I'm going to do my own thing because I think I have a thing to do. I'm not going to live in anybody else's image because I don't like that.' I felt much better. I didn't do it to rebel against anybody or anything.

I think my days of trying outrageous things are over. I'm not looking for trends, I just want to be the best version of myself.

I had no place in any coterie, or in any reciprocal self-advertising. I stood alone. I stood outside. I wanted only to learn. I wanted only to write better.

It's healthier to reject certain cautions than fall in line.

There is no room for hypocrisy. Why use bitter soup for healing when sweet water is everywhere?

Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!

Children must be free to think in all directions irrespective of the peculiar ideas of parents who often seal their children's minds with preconceived prejudices and false concepts of past generations. Unless we are very careful, very careful indeed, and very conscientious, there is still great danger that our children may turn out to be the same kind of people we are.

One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people.

If you can be that link to other people that came before you and the ones that come after, then you have to honor that link. If you are doing what somebody else tells you to do and you have success, it's horrible. And if you are doing what other people tell you to do and you fail, it's equally horrible.

I'm done living for other people. I'm done being a people pleaser. I'm done thinking about what people think about me.

I'm not like them, but I can pretend.

He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.

Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.

I don't believe that we are what we do although many thinkers argue otherwise. I believe that what we do is, very often, a poor approximation of what we are -- an imperfect manifestation of a much better totality. Even the best of us sometimes bite off, as it were, less than we can chew.

I just know who I am and what's comfortable for me and I don't personally do things in life because others do it or because that's what society tells me I should do.