My standpoint is armed neutrality.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDHow absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.
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What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.
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If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible.
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To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing.
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It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.
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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
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Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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What labels me, negates me.
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It is impossible to exist without passion.
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My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
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