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.
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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Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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Hope is a passion for the possible.
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Don’t forget to love yourself.
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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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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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In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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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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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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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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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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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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What labels me, negates me.
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It is impossible to exist without passion.
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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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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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