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.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDAbove all, do not lose your desire to walk.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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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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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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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.
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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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I am convinced that God is love.
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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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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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The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have.
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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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The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
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Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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