What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?
SOREN KIERKEGAARDThe 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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Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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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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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 standpoint is armed neutrality.
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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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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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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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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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Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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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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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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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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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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Boredom is the root of all evil.
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