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- 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…
- Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his place so that you may understand . . . what he…
- To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going down on one's knees and thanking him.
- This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were,…
- The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that…
- Boredom rests upon the nothingness that winds its way through existence; its giddiness, like that which comes from gazing down into an infinite abyss, is…
- Compared with the person who is conscious of his despair, the despairing individual who is ignorant of his despair is simply a negativity further away…
- Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He who does not understand irony…
- Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts.
- ...the person who surrenders absolutely to God, with no reservations, is absolutely safe. From this safe hiding-place he can see the devil , but the…
- It is a wonderful thing to see a first-rate philosopher at prayer. Tough-minded thinking and tenderhearted reverence are friends, not enemies. We have for too…
- As the arrow, loosed from the bow by the hand of the practiced archer, does not rest till it has reached the mark, so men…
- The individual (no matter how well-meaning he might be, no matter how much strength he might have, if only he would use it) does not…
- Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
- Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
- One can advise comfortably from a safe port.
- Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy — to be a man who is brisk about his food and…
- A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He…
- About as genuine as tea made from a bit of paper which once lay in a drawer beside another piece of paper which had been…
- It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the…
- I have just now come from a party where I was its life and soul; witticisms streamed from my lips, everyone laughed and admired me,…
- I have only one friend, and that is echo. Why is it my friend? Because I love my sorrow, and echo does not take it…
- People try to persuade us that the objections against Christianity spring from doubt. That is a complete misunderstanding. The objections against Christianity spring from insubordination,…
- He who does not know how to encircle a girl so that she loses sight of everything he does not want her to see, he…
- You love the accidental. A smile from a pretty girl in an interesting situation, a stolen glance, that is what you are hunting for, that…
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