Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDWhy bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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Boredom is the root of all evil.
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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.
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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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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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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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I am convinced that God is love.
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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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People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
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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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Don’t forget to love yourself.
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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 if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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My sorrow is my castle.
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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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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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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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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.
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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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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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Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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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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My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
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