Human relations are like the irregular verbs in a number of languages where nearly all verbs are irregular.
Soren KierkegaardHow absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
Soren KierkegaardIt is more blessed to give than to receive, but then it is also more blessed to be able to do without than to have to have.
Soren KierkegaardOne is not unpopular because he uses peculiar expressions; that just so happens; such terms become a fad, and by and by everybody, down to the last simpleton, uses them. But a person who follows through an idea in his mind is, and always will be, essentially unpopular. That is why Socrates was unpopular, though he did not use any special terms, for to grasp and hold his 'ignorance' requires greater vital effort than understanding the whole of Hegel's philosophy.
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