Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDTherefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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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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Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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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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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 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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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 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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In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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Boredom is the root of all evil.
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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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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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It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.
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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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Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
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