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.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDMany of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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Don’t forget to love yourself.
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Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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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 so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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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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What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?
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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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Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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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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My sorrow is my castle.
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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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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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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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