Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDI stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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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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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win 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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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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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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My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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Don’t forget to love yourself.
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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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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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Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
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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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