There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
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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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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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 mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
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Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.
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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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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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Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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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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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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