What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?
SOREN KIERKEGAARDBoredom is the root of all evil.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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Don’t forget to love yourself.
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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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My standpoint is armed neutrality.
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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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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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The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.
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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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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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It is impossible to exist without passion.
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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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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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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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Hope is a passion for the possible.
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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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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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Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory.
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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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Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have.
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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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