Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDThere are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
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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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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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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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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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In the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart.
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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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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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It is impossible to exist without passion.
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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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It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.
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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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