The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.

Soren Kierkegaard

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There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
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Believe Philosophy True Way
What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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Deep Laughter Philosophy Tears World
Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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Great Happiness Hide One Liner Place
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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Afraid Deep Inspirational Man Philosophy
What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?
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Exist Laugh Man Philosophy
In the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart.
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Happiness Heart Reflection Romantic Secret
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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Believe Hard One Liner
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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Advice Friendship Honest Possible Regret Situation
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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Advice Life Present Silence World
My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
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Faith Love Relationship
It is impossible to exist without passion.
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Exist Impossible One Liner Passion
I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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Deep Existence Fingers Myself Philosophy
The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have.
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Future Pain Remember Yourself
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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Beautiful Deep Heard High Life Live Read
Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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Faith One Liner Reflection
People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
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People Sarcastic Understand
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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Eyes Myself Passion Philosophy Possible Potential Power Wealth
My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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Faith Sad
Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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Past Philosophy Present Remember
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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Freedom People Sarcastic
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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Equality Interest Life Myself Philosophy
Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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Deep Life Past Pleasure Pursue
How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
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Freedom Liberty Man Sarcastic
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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Fight God Great Person Proud Right Strength
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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Faith God Himself Love Person Philosophy Reflection
My standpoint is armed neutrality.
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Myself One Liner
Hope is a passion for the possible.
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Hope One Liner Passion Possible
The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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Be Yourself
Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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Born Death Philosophy Yourself
Don’t forget to love yourself.
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One Liner Self Love Yourself
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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Act Action Deep Easy Religious Understand
The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
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Believe Eyes God Great Philosophy Religion Sin Trouble
Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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God Myself One Liner Spiritual
Boredom is the root of all evil.
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Evil One Liner
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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Freedom Mental One Liner
I am convinced that God is love.
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Convince God Love One Liner Spiritual
In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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Great Life Love Sad
It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.
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Deep Human Philosophy Understand
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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Cry Deep Happiness Heart Hide Lips Man Music Philosophy Poet Sound
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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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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