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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

Soren Kierkegaard

Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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Life Live Philosophy Understand
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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Advice Life Present Silence World
My standpoint is armed neutrality.
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Myself One Liner
Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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Born Death Philosophy Yourself
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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Faith Religion Sin Virtue
Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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Fear Yourself
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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Change Fact Philosophy Yourself
I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it — you will regret both.
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Advice Friendship Honest Possible Regret Situation
It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.
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Deep Human Philosophy Understand
My sorrow is my castle.
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Myself One Liner Sorrow
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.
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Freedom Liberty Man Sarcastic
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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Afraid Deep Inspirational Man Philosophy
The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have.
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Future Pain Remember Yourself
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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Believe Hard One Liner
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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Cry Deep Happiness Heart Hide Lips Man Music Philosophy Poet Sound
What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?
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Exist Laugh Man Philosophy

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

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