Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDAbove all, do not lose your desire to walk.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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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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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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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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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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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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People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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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 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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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 most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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