People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDTake away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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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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What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.
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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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My sorrow is my castle.
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In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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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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What labels me, negates me.
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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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Don’t forget to love 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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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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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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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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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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