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Boredom is the root of all evil.

Soren Kierkegaard

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
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
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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Beginning Born Cry Death Deep End Enjoyment Man Philosophy Woman
Boredom is the root of all evil.
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Evil One Liner
Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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Faith One Liner Reflection
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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Experience Life Problem Reality
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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Equality Interest Life Myself Philosophy
The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
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Believe Eyes God Great Philosophy Religion Sin Trouble
What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?
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Exist Laugh Man Philosophy
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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Freedom Liberty Man Sarcastic
Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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Born Death Philosophy Yourself
Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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Deep Life Past Pleasure Pursue
To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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Faith God Lose Mind
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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Believe Philosophy True Way
Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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Life Live Philosophy Understand
It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.
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Deep Human Philosophy Understand

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