Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
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Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
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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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Don't forget to love yourself.
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During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
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Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay, but like a child waking from its sleep with a heavenly smile.
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God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.
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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
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I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
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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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I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.
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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.
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It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.
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Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.
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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
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Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forward.
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Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.
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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 wander whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.
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Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.
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Once you label me you negate me.
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One can advise comfortably from a safe port.
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Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.
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People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.
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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
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Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
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The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.
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The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards morning: first of all come great dreams, then a feeling of laziness, and finally a witty or clever excuse for remaining in bed.
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The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
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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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To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
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Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
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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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