War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick the… - Thomas Carlyle

The difference between Orthodoxy or Mydoxy and Heterodoxy or Thy-doxy.

But deepest of all illusory Appearances, for hiding Wonder, as for many other ends, are your two grand fundamental world-enveloping Appearances, SPACE and TIME. These, as spun and woven for us from before Birth itself, to clothe our celestial ME for dwelling here, and yet to blind it, — lie all-embracing, as the universal canvas, or warp and woof, whereby all minor Illusions, in this Phantasm Existence, weave and paint themselves. In vain, while here on Earth, shall you endeavor to strip them off; you can, at best, but rend them asunder for moments, and look through.

The history of the world is but a biography of great men.