Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDIn the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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Hope is a passion for the possible.
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The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
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Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory.
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It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing.
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I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it — you will regret both.
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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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My standpoint is armed neutrality.
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To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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What 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.
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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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What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?
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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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Don’t forget to love yourself.
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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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