All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.
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Unknown
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
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Mahatma Gandhi
Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.
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Criss Jami
You should not honor men more than truth.
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Plato
Who you are in public is a test of your conviction; who you are in private, integrity.
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Criss Jami
More Quotes By Isak Dinesen
It is an alarming experience to be, in your person, representing Christianity to the natives.
After being told that the Professor “found it possible to believe for a moment in the existence of God, ” Isak thought, “Has it been possible to God, at Mount Elgon, to believe for a moment in the existence of Professor Landgreen?
The true aristocracy and the true proletariat of the world are both in understanding with tragedy. To them it is the fundamental principle of God, and the key, –the minor key, –to existence. They differ in this way from the bourgeoisie of all classes, who...
The cure for anything is salt water. Sweat, tears, or the ocean.
After a little while you became aware of how still it was out here. Now, looking back on my life in Africa, I feel like it might altogether be described as the existence of a person who had come from a rushed and noisy world,...
