Hope is a passion for the possible.
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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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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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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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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I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it — you will regret both.
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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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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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In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
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The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.
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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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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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It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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