People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDMy melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory.
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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth — look at the dying man’s struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.
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What labels me, negates me.
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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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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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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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Don’t forget to love yourself.
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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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To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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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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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 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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