Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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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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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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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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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Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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Don’t forget to love yourself.
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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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The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
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My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
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Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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I am convinced that God is love.
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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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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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