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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.

Soren Kierkegaard

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
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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Cry Deep Happiness Heart Hide Lips Man Music Philosophy Poet Sound
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
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Believe Philosophy True Way
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 Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.
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Act Action Deep Easy Religious Understand
My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
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Faith Love Relationship
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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Change Fact Philosophy Yourself
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
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
Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
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Desire Lose One Liner Speak
Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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Deep Life Past Pleasure Pursue
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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Freedom Mental One Liner
Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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God Myself One Liner Spiritual
Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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Faith One Liner Reflection
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

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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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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