"There is nothing with which every man..." - Quote by Soren Kierkegaard
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
More by Soren Kierkegaard
“One could construe the life of man as a great discourse in which the various people represent different parts of speech (the same might apply to states).”
“Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here? What is this thing called the world?”
“A poet is an unhappy creature whose heart is tortured by deepest suffering but whose lips are so formed that when his sighs and cries stream out over them, their sound beomes like the sound of beautiful music . . . . And men flock about the poet saying, Sing for us soon again; that is to say, may new sufferings torture your soul, and may your lips continue to be formed as before.”
More on Potential
“I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties.”
“If the mind is intensely eager, everything can be accomplished—mountains can be crumbled into atoms.”
“A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.”
More on Fear
“I am afraid of death. You are young, so presumably you're more afraid of it than I am. Obviously we shall put if off as long as we can. But it makes very little difference. So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.”
“Fear is the mother of morality.”
“I know the signs of scaredness.”