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.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDIf 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.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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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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The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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My standpoint is armed neutrality.
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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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To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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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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Hope is a passion for the possible.
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Boredom is the root of all evil.
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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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My sorrow is my castle.
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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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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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