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Sophocles Quotes

Sophocles

Greek tragidian ['Oedipus the King', 'Antigone']

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Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
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Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.
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Boredom is the root of all evil-the despairing refusal to be oneself.
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It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important
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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourishe
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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.
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In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known - no wonder, then, that I return the love.
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It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.
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Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth -look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.
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Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
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How 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.
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People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
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Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wander whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.
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Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.
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Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived -forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never beco
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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.
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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the quest
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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.
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Be that self which one truly is. - Kierkegaard, Soren
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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
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The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo, the more he can remember the more divine his life becomes.
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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.
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Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even the fullest existence as such is but a happy moment.
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Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
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If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, wha
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Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays.
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The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
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Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay, but like a child waking from its sleep with a heavenly smile.
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When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, ''It is talking to me, and about me.''
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Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic - if it is pulled out I shall die.
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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
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People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.
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It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are. Human understanding has vulgarly occupied itself with nothing but understanding, but if it would only take the trouble to
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