People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
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There are men who are wanting in the comparative, they as a rule are the most interesting.Søren Aabye Kierkegaard
It takes moral courage to grieve it requires religious courage to rejoice.
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Every truth is true only up to a point. Beyond that, by way of counter-point, it becomes untruth.
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Genius, like a thunderstorm, comes up against the wind.
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To the Christian, love is the works of love. To say that love is a feeling or anything of the kind is an unchristian conception of love. That is the aesthetic definition and therefore fits the erotic and everything of that nature. But to the Christian love is the works of love. Christ's love was not an inner feeling, a full heart and what not, it was the work of love which was his life.
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It is through woman that ideality is born into the world and what were man without her There is many a man who has become a genius through a woman, many a one a hero, many a one a poet, many a one even a saint but he did not become a genius through the woman he married, for through her he only became a privy councillor he did not become a hero through the woman he married, for through her he only became a general he did not become a poet through the woman he married, for through her he only became a father he did not become a saint through the woman he married, for he did not marry, and would have married but one the one whom he did not marry just as the others became a genius, became a hero, became a poet through the help of the woman they did not marry.
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