People think the world needs a republic, and they think it needs a new social order, and a new religion, but it never occurs to anyone that what the world really needs, confused as it is by much learning, is a new Socrates.
Søren Kierkegaard
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
compensation people thought speech demand freedom
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they seldom use
people thought speech demand freedom
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.
travel people
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
people
When David would rightly savor his power and glory, he took a census of the people; in our age, on the other hand, one might say that the people, in order to feel their importance in comparison with a higher power, count themselves.
glory age people order power
If anyone thinks he is a Christian and yet is indifferent toward being that, he is not one at all. When Christ says (Matthew 10: 17), Beware of people, I wonder if by this is not also meant: Beware of being tricked out of the highest by people, by continual comparison, by habit and by externals.
wonder wonders people
What we call worldliness simply consists of such people who, if one may so express it, pawn themselves to the world.
people order religion
Sin, however common to all, does not gather men together into a common concept, into an association or partnership (no more than out in the graveyard the multitude of the dead form a society), but splits people up into individuals and fastens hold of every individual as a sinner.
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