"The melancholy have the best sense of..." - Quote by Soren Kierkegaard
The melancholy have the best sense of the comic, the opulent often the best sense of the rustic, the dissolute often the best sense of the moral, and the doubter often the best sense of the religious.
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“Only when it is a duty to love, only then is love eternally and happily secured against despair.”
“Only one deception is possible in the infinite sense, self-deception.”
“The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation that the relation relates itself to its own self; the self is not the relation but that the relation relates itself to its own self.”
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“The strongest have their moments of fatigue.”
“Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation can be brought -- by force of circumstances, not argument -- to reconcile itself to any kind of government or religion that can be devised; in time it will fit itself to the required conditions; later it will prefer them and will fiercely fight for them.”
“I am conquered less by fortune than by the egotism and ingratitude of my companions in arms.”