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The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.

Soren Kierkegaard

What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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Deep Laughter Philosophy Tears World
The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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Difficult Heart Inspirational
My standpoint is armed neutrality.
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Myself One Liner
The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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Be Yourself
Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth — look at the dying man’s struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.
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Beginning Born Cry Death Deep End Enjoyment Man Philosophy Woman
Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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Deep Life Past Pleasure Pursue
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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Freedom People Sarcastic
The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.
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Fight God Great Person Proud Right Strength
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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Eyes Myself Passion Philosophy Possible Potential Power Wealth
To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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Faith God Lose Mind
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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Deep Great Loss
Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory.
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Deep Illusion Majority Oppression Politics Strong Truth
Hope is a passion for the possible.
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Hope One Liner Passion Possible
The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
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Believe Eyes God Great Philosophy Religion Sin Trouble
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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Freedom Mental One Liner
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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Deep Forget Life Live Philosophy True Understand

The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.

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