My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDPeople understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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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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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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Hope is a passion for the possible.
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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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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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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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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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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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I am convinced that God is love.
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Boredom is the root of all evil.
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The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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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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