Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDPeople demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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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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Hope is a passion for the possible.
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Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
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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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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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I am convinced that God is love.
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Don’t forget to love yourself.
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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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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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The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
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Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth — look at the dying man’s struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.
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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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