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Thought Quotes by Soren Kierkegaard
- 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…
- A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized…
- Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
- People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
- How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand…
- 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…
- Every mental act is composed of doubt and belief, but it is belief that is the positive, it is belief that sustains thought and holds…
- I am convinced that God is love, this thought has for me a primitive lyrical validity. When it is present to me, I am unspeakably…
- This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think.
- Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay,…
- People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they seldom use
- People hardly ever make use of the freedom they have, for example, freedom of thought; instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.
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- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
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- Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not. — Richard Armour
- I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's… — Lance Armstrong
- I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium. — Neil Armstrong
- Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for,… — Thomas Arnold