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.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDBoredom is the root of all evil.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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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 existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?
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It is impossible to exist without passion.
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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Hope is a passion for the possible.
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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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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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I am convinced that God is love.
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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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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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What labels me, negates me.
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