There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDIt is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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Hope is a passion for the possible.
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What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.
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For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.”
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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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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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What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?
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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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Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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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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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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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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