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"For like a poisonous breath over the fields, like a mass of locusts over Egypt, so the swarm of excuses is a general plaque, a ruinous infection among men, that eats off the sprouts of the Eternal."
"Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection"
"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."
"The paradox in Christian truth is invariably due to the fact that it is the truth that exists for God. The standard of measure and the end is superhuman; and there is only one relationship possible: faith."
"Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully that he literally chokes with thought. It is even questionable whether he ought to be called a suicide, since it is really thought which takes his life. He does not die with deliberation but from deliberation."
"The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation that the relation relates itself to its own self; the self is not the relation but that the relation relates itself to its own self."
"Those who dream must be awakened, and the deeper the people are who slumber, or the deeper they slumber, the more important it is that they be awakened, and the more powerfully must they be awakened."
"The question is asked in ignorance, by one who does not even know what can have led him to ask it."
"... all comparisons injure."
"Thus our own age is essentially one of understanding, and on the average, perhaps, more knowledgeable than any former generation, but it is without passion. Every one knows a great deal, we all know which way we ought to go and all the different ways we can go, but nobody is willing to move."
"It is very important in life to know when your cue comes."
"Where there are two people, there is untruth."
"The more men believe an idea to be true the greater the likelihood that the idea is mistaken. Those who are right usually stand alone."
"To Dare is to risk losing your foothold for a moment, Not to Dare is to risk losing yourself."
"It is impossible to exist without passion"
"To pace about, looking to obtain status, looking to attain 'importance' - I can think of nothing more ridiculous."
"Freedom's possibility is not the ability to choose the good or the evil. The possibility is to be able."
"The great trick with a woman is to get rid of her while she think's she's rid of you."
"Seek first God's Kingdom, that is, become like the lilies and the birds, become perfectly silent - then shall the rest be added unto you."
"For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God."