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.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDIn the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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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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My sorrow is my castle.
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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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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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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 labels me, negates me.
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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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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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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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For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.”
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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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My standpoint is armed neutrality.
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Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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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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Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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Hope is a passion for the possible.
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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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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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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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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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