Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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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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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Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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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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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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People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
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It is impossible to exist without passion.
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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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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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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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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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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.
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The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.
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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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