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’.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDWhy bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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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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Boredom is the root of all evil.
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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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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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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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Don’t forget to love yourself.
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Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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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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The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have.
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Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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I am convinced that God is love.
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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 if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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