"Any truth is only true up to..." - Quote by Soren Kierkegaard
Any truth is only true up to a certain point. When one oversteps the mark, it becomes a non-truth.
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“Busyness, keeping up with others, hustling hither and yon, makes it almost impossible for an individual to form a heart.”
“Every human being is tried this way in the active service of expectancy. Now comes the fulfillment and relieves him, but soon he is again placed on reconnaissance for expectancy; then he is again relieved, but as long as there is any future for him, he has not yet finished his service. And while human life goes on this way in very diverse expectancy, expecting very different things according to different times and occasions and in different frames of mind, all life is again one nightwatch of expectancy.”
“Learning to know anxiety is an adventure which every man has to affront if he would not go to perdition either by not having known anxiety or by sinking under it. He therefore who has leaned rightly to be in anxiety has learned the most important thing.”
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“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
“Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.”
“They call me "a teacher, a fomenter of violence." I would say point blank, "That is a lie. I'm not for wanton violence, I'm for justice."”
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“We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.”
“All our knowledge falls with the bounds of experience.”
“The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.”