The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDIt is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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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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In the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart.
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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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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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It is impossible to exist without passion.
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If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible.
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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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Boredom is the root of all evil.
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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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