• Feelings

  Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

  3.1 · 63 votes · 164 reads

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• Defects

  Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

  4.5 · 63 votes · 112 reads

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• Various

  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.

  3.0 · 41 votes · 25 reads

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• Society

  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.

  5.0 · 6 votes · 156 reads

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• Defects

  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.

  3.0 · 42 votes · 166 reads

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• Various

  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. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, wha

  3.6 · 14 votes · 178 reads

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• Defects

  In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known - no wonder, then, that I return the love.

  4.6 · 43 votes · 21 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.

  5.0 · 34 votes · 95 reads

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• Nature

  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 beco

  5.0 · 6 votes · 195 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

  3.9 · 37 votes · 150 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are. Human understanding has vulgarly occupied itself with nothing but understanding, but if it would only take the trouble to

  3.5 · 22 votes · 163 reads

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• Virtues

  It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourishe

  3.7 · 62 votes · 107 reads

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• Various

  It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important

  4.3 · 16 votes · 17 reads

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• Nature

  Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

  3.1 · 9 votes · 125 reads

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• Nature

  Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

  4.9 · 9 votes · 57 reads

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• Nature

  Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

  5.0 · 22 votes · 24 reads

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• Nature

  Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

  3.5 · 61 votes · 99 reads

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• Feelings

  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.

  4.7 · 60 votes · 59 reads

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• Society

  Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

  3.0 · 13 votes · 193 reads

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• Feelings

  Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

  3.6 · 23 votes · 119 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  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.

  3.0 · 19 votes · 135 reads

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• Time

  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.

  3.6 · 24 votes · 167 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

  3.6 · 48 votes · 116 reads

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• Art and Culture

  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.

  4.1 · 34 votes · 36 reads

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• Society

  People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.

  4.2 · 11 votes · 122 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  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.

  4.6 · 51 votes · 131 reads

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• Various

  Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays.

  3.3 · 54 votes · 55 reads

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• Defects

  Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.

  3.8 · 37 votes · 50 reads

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• Feelings

  Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic - if it is pulled out I shall die.

  4.4 · 6 votes · 181 reads

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• Various

  The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

  4.2 · 53 votes · 40 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo, the more he can remember the more divine his life becomes.

  3.5 · 13 votes · 0 reads

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• Feelings

  There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

  4.8 · 11 votes · 121 reads

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• Nature

  This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the quest

  4.7 · 23 votes · 126 reads

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• Feelings

  What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

  3.7 · 32 votes · 160 reads

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• Society

  When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, ''It is talking to me, and about me.''

  3.0 · 30 votes · 127 reads

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• Life6 of their quotes
• Boredom3 of their quotes
• Prayer3 of their quotes
• Ideas2 of their quotes
• Freedom2 of their quotes
• Anxiety1 of their quote