The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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Søren Kierkegaard
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Søren Kierkegaard quotes
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Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
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Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it.
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Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
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Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!
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What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.
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To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.
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You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
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Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
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An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts."
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“The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”