Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDIt is very important in life to know when your cue comes.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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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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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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Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
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In the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart.
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Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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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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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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Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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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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In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
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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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Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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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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