The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDWhat if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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My sorrow is my castle.
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My standpoint is armed neutrality.
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It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.
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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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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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It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.
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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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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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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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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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What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?
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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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Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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