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Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.


Soren Kierkegaard

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SOREN KIERKEGAARD Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forewards. -Soren Kierkegaard.
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BILL CLINGAN Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.
ALBERT SCHWEITZER As a man has no right to kill one of his children if it is diseased or insane, so a man who has made...
J.M. SYNGE Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve
ERICH FROMM Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
ERICH FROMM A man has to work so hard so that something of his personality stays alive. A tomcat has it so easy...
ALBERT EINSTEIN A man has to work so hard so that something of his personality stays alive. A tomcat has it so easy,...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the trut...
OSCAR WILDE Personality in man is what is "not his own" . . . what come from outside, what he has learned, or ...
GEORGE GURDJIEFF How could a man know the truth of his own soul?
ALEXANDRA RIPLEY Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Man is important in one sense only. He was made in the image of God: That is his importance. He is n...
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family...
MACK R. DOUGLAS To remain virtuous a man has only to combat his own desires; a woman must resist her own inclination...
DE LATENA An actor can change himself to fit a part, whereas a personality has to change the part to fit himse...
DALE ROBERTSON God has endowed man with inalienable rights, among which are self-government, reason, and conscienc...
JOHN DRYDEN Man is the only predator who hunts his own.
KENNETH EADE As a man has no right to kill one of his children if it is diseased or insane, so a man who has made...
J. M. SYNGE Man made God in his own image...
ECKHART TOLLE It is only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL A man is not a man until he leaves his home or has a house of his own.
VIKRANT PARSAI A man is not an elder because his head is grey; his age may be ripe, but he is called 'Old-in-vain.'
FRIEDRICH MAX MULLER God made man in his own image, and man returned the favour.
FRANK WEDEKIND A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.
BARBARA WALTERS A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.
MARK TWAIN Walking is the only form of transportation in which a man proceeds erect - like a man - on his own l...
EDWARD ABBEY If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that...
HORATIO NELSON Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most ...
ERICH FROMM Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the tru...
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the trut...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the trut...
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Legends were not only for the desperate. Legends were for the brave. (Soren)
KATHRYN LASKY Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality...
GEORGE ORWELL Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when ...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it...
HENRY MILLER In the Church, bodily asceticism has always been the supreme road to
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CHRISTOS YANNARAS A wise man need only the guidance of his own heart.
TYLER J. HEBERT I myself am my only obstacle to perfection,” wrote Kierkegaard.
GEORGE SHEEHAN The man of character is the persistent man, the man who is faithful to his own word, his own convict...
MARIA MONTESSORI If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is t...
MORRIS WEST Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True ...
MARK TWAIN In the Church, bodily asceticism has always been the supreme road to
theological knowledge. It ...
CHRISTOS YANNARAS Man tends to see truth through his eyes only, be careful.
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BRIAN KRAUSE Like oneWho having into truth, by telling of it,Made such a sinner of his memory,To credit his own l...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It is great that each [restaurant] has its own personality.
KATHERINE CARMODY Every man has a right to his own opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts
BERNARD M. BARUCH When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own s...
JOSEPH ADDISON This trail has its own personality.
JAKE BLAKER Man is the religious animal. He is the only religious animal. He is the only animal that has the Tru...
MARK TWAIN Only the man with a free mind has own the infinite horizons!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim a...
ERIC HOFFER Why a wise man is wise? The answer is simple: Because he has left his own shore!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become - because He made us. He invent...
C.S. LEWIS Surely a man has come to himself only when he has found the best that is in him, and has satisfied h...
WOODROW WILSON Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his mere...
C.S. LEWIS That is where consensus-building begins-with the idea that you have your own truth, but that the neg...
HARRI HOLKERI The man who listens only to his own voice knows little but is never wrong.
E.R. ROCK His own personal siren nightmare. What else could it be when his body only sparked alive when it was...
V. THEIA A wise man remembers his friends at all times; a fool, only when he has need of them.
TURKISH PROVERB When a man has a gift in speaking the truth, brute aggression is no longer his security blanket for ...
CRISS JAMI A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.
PATRICK KAVANAGH "Your personality was made from two other personalities (mother/father), so in one sense you were bo...
ED BULEY A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.
HERBERT READ What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it...
HENRY MILLER You know like it has its own personality, its own character.
MARC NEWSON All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.
SOPHOCLES It is my personality alone that has brought back the waltz and made it a global craze.
ANDRE RIEU Civilisation is the distance that man has placed between himself and his own excreta.
BRIAN W. ALDISS Many a man, under the old and the new systems, has made the upward step from candidate to legislator...
LAURENCE J. PETER Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inhe...
FREDERICK HENRY HEDGE True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends b...
LARRY MCMURTRY True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' ...
LARRY MCMURTRY True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' ...
LARRY MCMURTRY When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices no...
NOAH WEBSTER When a man is getting worse, he understands his own badness less and less.
C.S. LEWIS When man turns tyrant it is his own freedom he destroys.
GEORGE ORWELL (1903 - 1950) The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
HERMANN HESSE The key to every man is his thought. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which command...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The key to every man is his thought.... He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which comm...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON It is said that only a fool learns from his own mistakes, a wise man from the mistakes of others.
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MAHATMA GANDHI What a man has made himself he will be; his state is the result of his past life, and his heaven or ...
CATHERINE CROWE Every man has his secret desire, I suppose, and mine is someday to own a farm.
A.G. STREET Did Soren agree to be part of a system to protect Skench and Spoorn and the others?" Barren, the oth...
KATHRYN LASKY Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.
JOHN WEBSTER Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inheri...
FRANCIS HERBERT HEDGE Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything -- except his own nature.
HENRY MILLER When a man thinks he is reading the character of another, he is often unconsciously betraying his ow...
JOSEPH FARRELL True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends&#...
LARRY MCMURTRY Anxiety,” Kierkegaard said, “is the dizziness of freedom.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE

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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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