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It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.

Soren Kierkegaard

Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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Past Philosophy Present Remember
It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Deep Human Philosophy Understand
In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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Great Life Love Sad
Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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Born Death Philosophy Yourself
My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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Faith Sad
What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?
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Exist Laugh Man Philosophy
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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Experience Life Problem Reality
Don’t forget to love yourself.
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One Liner Self Love Yourself
I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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Deep Existence Fingers Myself Philosophy
My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
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Faith Love Relationship
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
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Function God Nature Philosophy Prayer
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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Eyes Myself Passion Philosophy Possible Potential Power Wealth
What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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Deep Laughter Philosophy Tears World
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.
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Act Action Deep Easy Religious Understand
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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Deep Great Loss
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’.
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Advice Life Present Silence World

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