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.
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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Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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Boredom is the root of all evil.
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My sorrow is my castle.
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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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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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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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My standpoint is armed neutrality.
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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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Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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