Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDWhat is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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Boredom is the root of all evil.
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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
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Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.
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For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.”
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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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Don’t forget to love yourself.
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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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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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