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.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDAnxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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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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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
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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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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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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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My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
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Hope is a passion for the possible.
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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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