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All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny.
Buying, possessing, accumulating - this is not worldliness. But doing this in the love of it, with no love of God paramount - doing it so that thoughts of eternity and God are an intrusion - doing it so that one’s spirit is secularized in the process; this is worldliness.
Søren Kierkegaard, fully Søren Aabye Kierkegaard
Perfect love means to love the one through whom one became unhappy.
Søren Kierkegaard, fully Søren Aabye Kierkegaard
The paradox is the source of the thinker's passion, and the thinker without a paradox is like a love without feeling; a paltry mediocrity.
Love | Mediocrity | Paradox | Passion | Wisdom |
To be a revolutionary is to love your life enough to change it, to choose struggle instead of exile, to risk everything with only the glimmering hope of a world to win...Woman loves with her whole soul. To woman love is life, to man it is the joy of life.
Change | Enough | Hope | Joy | Life | Life | Love | Man | Risk | Soul | Struggle | Wisdom | Woman | World |
D. H. Lawrence, fully David Herbert "D.H." Lawrence
We are bleeding at the roots, because we are cut off from the earth and sun and stars, and love is grinning mockery, because, poor blossom, we plucked it from its stem on the tree of Life, and expected it to keep on blooming in our civilized vase on the table.
If a man builds a better mousetrap than his neighbor, the world will not only beat a path to his door, it will make newsreels of him and his wife in beach pajamas, it will discuss his diet and his health, it will publish heart-throb stories of his love life.
Better | Diet | Health | Heart | Life | Life | Love | Man | Wife | Will | Wisdom | World |
Gottfried Leibniz, fully Gottfried Wilhalm von Leibniz, Baron von Leibnitz
To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.