“I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.”
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“The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.”
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“A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.”
Happiness“If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.”
God“It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.”
Dating“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
Change“Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.”
Life“Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.”
Change“Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.”
Marriage“Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.”
Life“Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.”
Faith“Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.”
Time“Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.”
Truth“Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.”
Love“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”
Freedom“Don't forget to love yourself.”
Love“What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.”
Music“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
Life“Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.”
Age“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.”
Experience“The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.”
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