Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
SOREN KIERKEGAARDIf 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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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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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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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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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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To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
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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.
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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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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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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
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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 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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