"It is not the path which is..." - Quote by Soren Kierkegaard
It is not the path which is the difficulty; rather, it is the difficulty which is the path.
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“The minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion.”
“Irony limits, finitizes, and circumscribes and thereby yields truth, actuality, content; it disciplines and punishes and thereby yields balance and consistency.”
“The great trick with a woman is to get rid of her while she think's she's rid of you.”
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“Simple things are always the most difficult.”
“My last vivid boyhood fright from books came when I was 15; I was visiting my uncle and aunt in Greenwich, and, emboldened by my success with 'The Waste Land,' I opened their copy of 'Ulysses.' The whiff of death off those remorseless, closely written pages overpowered me. So: back to soluble mysteries, and jokes that were not cosmic.”
“Teaching is like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at once.”
More on Path
“The way of truth is like a great road. It is not difficult to know it. The evil is only that men will not seek it.”
“Where there is a way or path, it is someone else's. Each of us has to find his own way.”
“Wherever a man separates from the multitude, and goes his own way in this mood, there indeed is a fork in the road, though ordinary travelers may see only a gap in the paling. His solitary path across lots will turn out the higher way of the two.”