People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDWhy bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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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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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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I am convinced that God is love.
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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 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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In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.
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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.
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