Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end, the race will assimilate what was once a paradox, so it is no longer paradoxical.
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It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.
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Journalists always explain that people are mad at them because they tell the truth, which is often unpleasant or uncomfortable to hear. However, they fail in situations where there is more than one truth.
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As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their work, but when the artist actually kicked in, I came to understand that in this romantic relationship I was not free to be myself, or to find myself, in order to begin the true work I needed to do.
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You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.
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The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the greater will be our progress, and the more real our humility.
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Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
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I would honestly say I'm in the turtle's race. My journey is a marathon.
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Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth.
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Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
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The more one presupposes that his own power will suffice him to realize what he desires the more practical is that desire. When I treat a man contemptuously, I can inspire him with no practical desire to appreciate my grounds of truth. When I treat any one as worthless, I can inspire him with no desire to do right.
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I'm planning, you see, to try to confine myself to the truth. That's hard for an old, inveterate fantasy martyr and illegible liar who has never hesitated to give truth the form he felt the occasion demanded.
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Talking with most people usually involves a search for truth. Talking with congressmen is strictly special effects.
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Whatever my intentions, whatever the truth of my claim, I had no business giving a lecture to a total stranger.
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He discovered the cruel paradox by which we always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
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Each man has in him the potential to realize the truth through his own will and endeavour and to help others to realize it. Human life therefore is infinitely precious.
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We live in a world of denial, and we don't know what the truth is anymore.
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The truth is that I don't really care what everyone thinks.
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No government proposal more complicated than 'This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private' ever works.
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I've never written lyrics. I get up in front of a microphone, and I just sing what comes to the top of my head.
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She knows her man, and when you rant and swear,Can draw you to her with a single hair.
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What I'm driving at is let's not lose sight in our excitement of the democratization of the media that some things are bad, false and ugly - and no amount of electronic gloss will make them true, beautiful and accurate.
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A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end, the race will assimilate what was once a paradox, so it is no longer paradoxical.
