People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDTake away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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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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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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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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In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased. If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice, I should reply, ‘Create silence’.
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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.
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I am convinced that God is love.
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Boredom is the root of all evil.
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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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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.
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