Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
Spiritual superiority only sees the individual. But alas, ordinarily we human beings are sensual and, therefore, as soon as it is a gathering, the impression changes - we see something abstract, the crowd, and we become different. But in the eyes of God, the infinite spirit, all the millions that have lived and now live do not make a crowd, He only sees each individual.
Soren Kierkegaard
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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines the purpose and accounts for the immense wealth of American sports. It is the ceremony of innocence that the fans pay to see - not the game or the match or the bout, but the ritual portrayal of a world in which time stops and all hope remains plausible, in which everybody present can recover the blameless expectations of a child, where the forces of light always triumph over the powers of darkness.
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If it were not for repentance and forgiveness, I would become discouraged and discontinue my labors.
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Literature is an inquiry into the deepest yearnings of the human spirit.
Ernest L. Boyer
Who tarnishes, assaults, threatens, hates the spirit of man is guilty of crime.
Christina Stead
Art brings people back to their sensibility as human beings. This is the purpose of art: To bring people together and bring back the humanity as well.
eL Seed
One tries to tell a truth, and one hopes that the truth has a general application rather than just a specific one.
William Golding
Spiritual superiority only sees the individual. But alas, ordinarily we human beings are sensual and, therefore, as soon as it is a gathering, the impression changes - we see something abstract, the crowd, and we become different. But in the eyes of God, the infinite spirit, all the millions that have lived and now live do not make a crowd, He only sees each individual.
Soren Kierkegaard
