The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDTruth 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.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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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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The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have.
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It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.
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Hope is a passion for the possible.
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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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People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
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Don’t forget to love yourself.
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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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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 standpoint is armed neutrality.
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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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My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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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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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 function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
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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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The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.
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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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To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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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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My sorrow is my castle.
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Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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