It needs courage to reveal oneself as one truly is, it needs courage not to want to purchase one’s freedom from a little humiliation when one can do that through a certain secretiveness, not to want to purchase oneself a little addition to one’s stature when one can do that by being reticent. It needs courage to want to be healthy, to want the truth in all honesty and candour.
 Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or (1843). copy citation

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Author Søren Kierkegaard
Source Either/Or
Topic honesty freedom
Date 1843
Language English
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Note Translated by Alastair Hannay
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