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His Quotes by Soren Kierkegaard
- What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries…
- A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers…
- The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
- Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last…
- It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.
- Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age…
- Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
- The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine…
More His Quotes
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale
- I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the… — Neil Armstrong
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery. — Matthew Arnold