Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDWhat 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.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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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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Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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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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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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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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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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To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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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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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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In the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart.
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In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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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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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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