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.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDIt is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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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 self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
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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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It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.
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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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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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Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.
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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.
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My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
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