The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDIn the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
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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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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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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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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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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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Boredom is the root of all evil.
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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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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 self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
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To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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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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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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