Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
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Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.Soren Kierkegaard
It is quite true what Philosophy says that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.
Soren Kierkegaard
When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, ''It is talking to me, and about me.''
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I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.
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It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.
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Honour him, dear Symparanekromenoi, for his grey hair and his misfortune.
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