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.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDListen 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.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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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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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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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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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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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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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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And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.
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Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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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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