Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
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Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.Soren Kierkegaard
The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
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Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
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Purity of heart is to will one thing.
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Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.
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Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even the fullest existence as such is but a happy moment.
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