The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDAbove all, do not lose your desire to walk.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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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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Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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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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Boredom is the root of all evil.
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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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People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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What labels me, negates me.
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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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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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And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.
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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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