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.
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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Hope is a passion for the possible.
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Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
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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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My sorrow is my castle.
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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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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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The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
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Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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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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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?
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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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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.
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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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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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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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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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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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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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I am convinced that God is love.
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Don’t forget to love yourself.
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