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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

Soren Kierkegaard

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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Change Fact Philosophy Yourself
Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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Life Live Philosophy Understand
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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Eyes Myself Passion Philosophy Possible Potential Power Wealth
Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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God Myself One Liner Spiritual
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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Fight God Great Person Proud Right Strength
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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Deep Forget Life Live Philosophy True Understand
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
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Function God Nature Philosophy Prayer
People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
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People Sarcastic Understand
What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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Deep Laughter Philosophy Tears World
Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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Born Death Philosophy Yourself
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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Advice Life Present Silence World
The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have.
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Future Pain Remember Yourself
Don’t forget to love yourself.
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One Liner Self Love Yourself
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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Deep Great Loss
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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Faith God Himself Love Person Philosophy Reflection
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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Afraid Deep Inspirational Man Philosophy

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