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.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDThe 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.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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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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Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.
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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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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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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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My standpoint is armed neutrality.
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I am convinced that God is love.
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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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My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
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Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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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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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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