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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 el...”
“Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.”
“People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they t...”
“Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.”
“Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.”
“It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.”
“Once you label me you negate me.”
“Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.”
“Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.”
“All men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this. . . . The gods were bored, and so they created man. Adam was bored because he was alone, and so Eve ...”
“How dreadful boredom is how dreadfully boring; I know no stronger expression, no truer one, for like is recognized only by like I lie prostrate, inert; the only thing I see is emptiness, the only ...”
“My opinion is, of course, completely my own. I would not impose it on anyone else and decline any pressure to change it.”
“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”
“Most people believe that the Christian commandments are intentionally a little too severe - like setting a clock half an hour ahead to make sure of not being late in the morning.”
“Purity of heart is to will one thing.”
“Truth is not introduced into the individual from without but was within him all the time.”
“Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth.”
“Without risk faith is an impossibility.”
“Adversity not only draws people together but brings forth that beautiful inward friendship.”
“If an Arab in the desert were suddenly to discover a spring in his tent and so would always be able to have water in abundance how fortunate he would consider himself so too when a man who ... ...”
