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.
Søren Kierkegaard
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.
relationships essential important
Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
trouble living common great
The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.
truth
The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins
tyranny rule
Be that self which one truly is.
At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
lies strangers indifference
Do you not know that there comes a midnight hour when every one has to throw off his mask? Do you believe that life will always let itself be mocked? Do you think you can slip away a little before midnight in order to avoid this? Or are you not terrified by it? I have seen men in real life who so long deceived others that at last their true nature could not reveal itself; .. In every man there is something which to a certain degree prevents him from becoming perfectly transparent to himself; and this may be the case in so high a degree, he may be so inexplicably woven into relationships of life which extend far beyond himself that he almost cannot reveal himself. But he who cannot reveal himself cannot love, and he who cannot love is the most unhappy man of all.
life man order men nature real true relationships mask unhappy love
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
idleness true evil good
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
lose dare
Once you label me, you negate me
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
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.
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