Hope is a passion for the possible.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDIt is impossible to exist without passion.
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Hope is a passion for the possible.
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In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDIn my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDNow, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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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’.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDThe 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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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.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDIt 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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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.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDThe 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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Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
SOREN KIERKEGAARDWhy bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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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.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDThe 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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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.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDIf 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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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDThe task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
SOREN KIERKEGAARDLeap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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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.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDListen 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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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDMy melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDLife is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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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.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDIt 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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