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What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?

Soren Kierkegaard

It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Deep Human Philosophy Understand
My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
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Faith Love Relationship
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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Eyes Myself Passion Philosophy Possible Potential Power Wealth
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
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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Freedom People Sarcastic
It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.
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Life Yourself
What labels me, negates me.
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Myself One Liner
Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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Great Happiness Hide One Liner Place
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
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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Deep Forget Life Live Philosophy True Understand
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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Change Fact Philosophy Yourself
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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Fight God Great Person Proud Right Strength
The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.
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Act Action Deep Easy Religious Understand
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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Freedom Mental One Liner
Boredom is the root of all evil.
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Evil One Liner
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Deep Think

What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?

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