The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDThe 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’.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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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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What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.
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Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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In the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart.
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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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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
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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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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory.
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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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