

“The crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.”
Traced to Journals (1835).
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“I stick my finger in existence — it smells of nothing. Where am I? Who am I? How came I here? What is this thing called the world?”
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Repetition · 1843
verified“A son is a mirror in which the father sees himself reflected, and the father is a mirror in which the son sees himself as he will be in the future.”
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Stages on Life's Way · 1845
verified“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 out the sum for themselves.”
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Journals · 1837
verified“It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.”
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Journals · 1841
verified“The greatest danger, that of losing one's own self, may pass off as quietly as if it were nothing; every other loss, that of an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife etc., is sure to be noticed.”
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The Sickness unto Death · 1849
verified“Faith sees best in the dark.”
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Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits · 1847
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“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.”
Helen Keller
Optimism · 1903
verified“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
Helen Keller
Address to the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf · 1896
verified“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
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We Bereaved · 1929
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Mahatma Gandhi
Speech at a prayer meeting, New Delhi · 1947
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Viktor Frankl
Man's Search for Meaning · 1959
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Martin Luther King Jr.
The Future of Integration, address at Oberlin College · 1964
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