as if we were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enfore'd obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting-on!
İmpulse (Dürtü)
To change the figure, the compulsion that moves a man and there is but the one is the necessity of securing the contentment of his own spirit.
When it stops, the Man is dead.
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Truth must of necessity be stranger than fiction, said Basil placidly. For fiction is the creation of the human mind, and therefore is congenial to it.
Good Captains never come to an engagement unless necessity compels them, or the opportunity calls them.
And when you love a person, don’t start demanding; otherwise from the very beginning you are closing the doors. Don’t expect anything. If something comes your way, feel grateful. If nothing comes, there is no need for it to come, there is no necessity for it to come. You cannot expect it.
The mission schools made no attempt to convert: that would have driven their pupils away. Indeed most of their students and 70 per cent of their teachers were non-Christians. Instead they inculcated the ideals of social service, the importance of extracurricular activity, the necessity of character-building and (in some cases) the virtues of manliness. The aim was transparent: if they could not preach Christianity, they would teach the Christian ethos. Its gradual penetration of the Indian elite – this was the hope – would dissolve the moral foundations of Hinduism and Islam and thus open the path for Christian conversion at the top, as well as the bottom, of Indian society.
