Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDPeople understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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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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The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have.
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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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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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It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.
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Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
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It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.
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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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Don’t forget to love yourself.
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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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