"It seems essential, in relationships and all..." - Quote by Soren Kierkegaard
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.
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“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 freedom of speech.”
“For love is exultant when it unites equals, but it is triumphant when it makes that which was unequal equal in love.”
“The thing is to understand myself: the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die. That is what I now recognize as the most important thing.”
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“90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.”
“The art of governing is a great metier, requiring the whole man, and it is therefore not well for a ruler to have too strong tendencies for other affairs.”
“Let men decide firmly what they will not do, and they will be free to do vigorously what they ought to do.”
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“A knight whose heart is set upon the Way, but who is ashamed of wearing shabby clothes and eating coarse food, is not worth calling into counsel.”
“That's the trouble with our charities; we are always saving somebody away off, when the fellow next to us ain't eating.”
“It's a marriage. If I had to choose between my wife and my putter, well, I'd miss her.”