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Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.

Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.

Soren Kierkegaard
Men, Personality, Made
Soren Kierkegaard (2015). “The Prayers of Kierkegaard”, p.134, University of Chicago Press

A man's personality is matured only when he appropriates the truth, whether it is spoken by Balaam's ass or a sniggering wag or an apostle or an angel.

Soren Kierkegaard
Angel, Men, Personality
"Søren Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers: Autobiographical, 1829-1848". Book by Søren Kierkegaard and Gregor Malantschuk, p. 226, Journals IV A 87 (1843), 1978.

...even the richest personality is nothing before he has chosen himself, and on the other hand even what one might call the poorest personality is everything when he has chosen himself; for the great thing is not to be this or that but to be oneself, and this everyone can be if he wills it.

Soren Kierkegaard
Hands, Personality, Might

Doubt is thought's despair; despair is personality's doubt. . . . Doubt and despair . . . belong to completely different spheres; different sides of the soul are set in motion. . . . Despair is an expression of the total personality, doubt only of thought.

Soren Kierkegaard
Expression, Personality, Soul

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