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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Soren Kierkegaard

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
In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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Great Life Love Sad
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
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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Equality Interest Life Myself Philosophy
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
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
What labels me, negates me.
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Myself One Liner
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
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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Believe Philosophy True Way
Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory.
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Deep Illusion Majority Oppression Politics Strong Truth
Hope is a passion for the possible.
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Hope One Liner Passion Possible
The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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Be 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
To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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Faith God Lose Mind
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
Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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Past Philosophy Present Remember
What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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Deep Laughter Philosophy Tears World
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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Believe Hard One Liner
My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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Faith Sad
Don’t forget to love yourself.
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One Liner Self Love Yourself
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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Deep Great Loss
Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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Fear Yourself
In the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart.
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Happiness Heart Reflection Romantic Secret
Boredom is the root of all evil.
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Evil One Liner
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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Change Fact Philosophy Yourself
People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
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People Sarcastic Understand
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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Beginning Born Cry Death Deep End Enjoyment Man Philosophy Woman

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