People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDIt is impossible to exist without passion.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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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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It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.
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Don’t forget to love yourself.
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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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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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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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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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Boredom is the root of all evil.
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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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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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My sorrow is my castle.
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My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
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