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.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDWhat is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
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I am convinced that God is love.
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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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What labels me, negates me.
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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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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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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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Hope is a passion for the possible.
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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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My standpoint is armed neutrality.
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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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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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