My standpoint is armed neutrality.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDWhy bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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I am convinced that God is love.
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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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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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The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have.
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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 the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.
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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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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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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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Hope is a passion for the possible.
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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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What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?
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Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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