It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDIt 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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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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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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My standpoint is armed neutrality.
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My sorrow is my castle.
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Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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Boredom is the root of all evil.
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The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased. If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice, I should reply, ‘Create silence’.
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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.
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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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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.
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