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


Soren Kierkegaard

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forewards. -Soren Kierkegaard.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Don't forget to love yourself. -Soren Kierkegaard.
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LUDWIG VON MISES The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing th...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every...
ALFRED ADLER It is only when we allow ourselves to dream of impossibilities that we can muster the human courage ...
DAN WALDSCHMIDT Certain gifts God makes to the human soul without its asking or desiring; but there are other gifts ...
VINCENT MCNABB If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, ...
ELLEN TERRY If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, ...
ELLEN TERRY Being stigmatied by sex is being marked by its meaning in a human life of loneliness and imperfectio...
ANDREA DWORKIN People are always warning me that I'm going to burn out. But the truth is, the only thing that t...
MICHAEL STRAHAN There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can ...
JACOB EPSTEIN Civilization is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man ca...
OSCAR WILDE Everything here, but the soul of man, is a passing shadow. The only enduring substance is within.
W.E.CHANNING This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection.
SAINT AUGUSTINE This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection.
ST AUGUSTINE It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite o...
GEORGE ELIOT The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual: everything man needs has to be ...
AYN RAND (…)man holds the remedy in his own hands, and lets everything go its own way, simply through cowar...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Man could escape danger only by renouncing adventure, by abandoning that which has given to the huma...
RENE DUBOIS For neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to...
JOHN MILTON Man belongs to his Maker.
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MILAN KUNDERA Frigidity is desire imagined by a woman who doesn't desire the man offering himself to her. It's the...
MARGUERITE DURAS Frigidity is desire imagined by a woman who doesn't desire the man offering himself to her. It's th...
MARGUERITE DURAS What is passing for religion in most of the Earth now is its opposite: xenophobia and road rage.
RICHARD GROSSINGER What is this you call property? It cannot be the earth. For the land is our mother, nourishing all h...
MASSASOIT The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a conditi...
PIR VILAYAT KHAN All that spirits desire, spirits attain.
KHALIL GIBRAN All that spirits desire, spirits attain.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind. Logic, they say, belongs to man, But let ...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Think of it without a shadow of a doubt, that you can soar passed the highest mountains. Accomplishi...
ENRIQUE VEGA The gift of broadcasting is, without question, the lowest human capacity to which any man could atta...
HAROLD NICOLSON The mind only wishes for things that it fears it can not attain.
DANIEL TUCKER Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cann...
MARQUIS DE SADE One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that can...
JOHN BERGER The human spirit is not dead. It lives on in secret.....It has come to believe that compassion, in w...
ALBERT SCHWEITZER The human spirit is not dead. It lives on in secret... It has come to believed that compassion, in w...
ALBERT SCHWEITZER I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the invento...
NIKOLA TESLA I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the invento...
NIKOLA TESLA Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES It is only when man cultivate humanness that society will shine with radiance and the nation and the...
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and t...
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it- namely, in order to make a man or...
MARK TWAIN The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him.
VOLTAIRE But those who seek only reassurance from life will never be more than tourists—seeing everything a...
SIMON VAN BOOY Contemplation is an alternative consciousness that refuses to identify with or feed what are only pa...
RICHARD ROHR No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his rel...
NELSON MANDELA To say that I have found the answer to all riddles of the soul would be inaccurate and presumptuous....
L. RON HUBBARD As each situation in life represents a challenge to man and presents a problem for him to solve, the...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL A man knows who his heart truly belongs to. Nothing any girl; no matter what she looks like, can eve...
STEVE MURPHY Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the...
HENRY GEORGE Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is...
VIKTOR FRANKL The anger and the brutality against everything can readily from one hour to the next be transformed ...
THOMAS BERNHARD The worth of a man can only be measured by the value of his word.
WILLIAM STOBART MITCH The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten simila...
ROLLO MAY Faith belongs to the human spirit. Faith is faith. Humanity is divided by religion, religion is the ...
C. JOYBELL C. In humans (and humans alone), sexuality is embodied in desire--in the primordial desire for life-as-...
CHRISTOS YANNARAS I myself am my only obstacle to perfection,” wrote Kierkegaard.
GEORGE SHEEHAN If religion is only human, and its form is man's form, it follows that everything in religion is tru...
EMILE-AUGUSTE CHARTIER If everything is imperfect in this imperfect world, love is most perfect in its perfect imperfection
GUNNAR BJöRNSTRAND Sometimes the man of your dream only belongs in your dream.
PRECIOUS KERME Sometimes the man of your dream only belongs in your dream.
PRECIOUS KERME GAYAN Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL This Universe belongs to the predator who dares to prey on its natural & human resources for the ben...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Given his emphasis on human freedom it is no wonder why some champion Kierkegaard as the father of e...
MARK A. TIETJEN What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
MICHEL FOUCAULT Human kind has to get out of violence only through nonviolence. Hatred can be overcome only by love....
MOHANDAS GANDHI I consider trial by jury as the only anchor yet imagined by man by which a government can be held t...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too ligh...
THOMAS PAINE By taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing over it, he is superior.
UNKNOWN The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused m...
FRANCIS BACON Legends were not only for the desperate. Legends were for the brave. (Soren)
KATHRYN LASKY A novel examines not reality but existence. And existence is not what has occurred, existence is the...
MILAN KUNDERA the only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by ...
JOHN STUART MILL Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, onl...
MAHATMA GANDHI For love is no part of the dreamworld. Love belongs to Desire, and Desire is always cruel.
NEIL GAIMAN France, land of human rights and freedoms, was attacked on its own soil by a totalitarian ideology: ...
MARINE LE PEN Not by refraining from action does man attain freedom from action. Not by mere renunciation does he ...
KRISHNA-DWAIPAYANA VYASA I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be h...
THOMAS JEFFERSON A human being - what is a human being? Everything and nothing. Through the power of thought it can m...
GUY DE MAUPASSANT It is the will of the American people that we have a right to protect our flag and this can only be ...
ADRIAN CRONAUER Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of...
MARK TWAIN A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips...
CHARLES DE GAULLE A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips...
CHARLES DE GAULLE Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hatefu...
KARL BARTH In the seventeenth century, it was held by some that inside a human sperm there was a minute human b...
JOHN TYLER BONNER Your ass belongs to me. I’ve suffered for it. I’ve loved you forever. I deserve it,” Danny wen...
KELE MOON A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from ...
GEORGE GURDJIEFF A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from ...
GURDJIEFF No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual's i...
WILLIAM FAULKNER Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything b...
LEO TOLSTOY Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a bla...
MAHMOUD DARWISH It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
ERIC HOFFER The universe is so vast and ageless that the life of one man can only be measured by the size of his...
ROSEWARNE V.A The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with ...
JOSEPH BUTLER The beginning as well as the end of all his thoughts was hatred of human law, that hatred which, if ...
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SOREN KIRKEGAARD In 2008, Nokia expects that 3 billion people will be owning a mobile phone, with much of this growth...
SOREN PETERSEN The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.
SøREN KIERKEGAARD Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We preten...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
SøREN KIERKEGAARD People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
SøREN KIERKEGAARD The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
SøREN KIERKEGAARD Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
SøREN KIERKEGAARD If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
SøREN KIERKEGAARD Once you label me you negate me.
SøREN KIERKEGAARD Every mental act is composed of doubt and belief,
but it is belief that is the positive, it is ...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD When one has once fully entered the realm of love, the world — no matter how imperfect — becomes...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate.
SøREN KIERKEGAARD I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My hon...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD Love is the expression of the one who loves, not of the one who is loved. Those who think they can l...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were ...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
SøREN KIERKEGAARD What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed tha...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of ...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD The more he needs God, the more deeply he comprehends he is in need of God, and then the more he in ...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD The matter is quite simple. The bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of s...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD You love the accidental. A smile from a pretty girl in an interesting situation, a stolen glance, th...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believ...
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