To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student.
Soren KierkegaardChoose to be who you are. . . The individual who would become a person must at some point take over his entire being - must, that is, choose herself.
Soren KierkegaardTo be a teacher does not mean simply to affirm that such a thing is so, or to deliver a lecture, etc.
Soren KierkegaardIn the end, therefore, money will be the one thing people will desire, which is moreover only representative, an abstraction. Nowadays a young man hardly envies anyone his gifts, his art, the love of a beautiful girl, or his fame; he only envies him his money. Give me money, he will say, and I am saved...He would die with nothing to reproach himself with, and under the impression that if only he had had the money he might really have lived and might even have achieved something great.
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