My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDIf I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
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Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have.
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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.
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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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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.
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Don’t forget to love yourself.
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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
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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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It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.
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