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Tag: S?ren Kierkegaard
Of all tyrannies democracy is the most agonizing, the most inane, the absolute fall of everything great and elevated.
Fixed ideas are like a cramp in the foot – the best remedy against it is to tread on it.
There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys: they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked the sum out for themselves.
If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential — for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.