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.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDMy melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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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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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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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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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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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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Boredom is the root of all evil.
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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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My sorrow is my castle.
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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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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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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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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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Don’t forget to love yourself.
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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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