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’.
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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I am convinced that God is love.
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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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In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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What labels me, negates me.
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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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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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Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it — you will regret both.
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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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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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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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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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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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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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The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have.
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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.
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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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The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
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My standpoint is armed neutrality.
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Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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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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The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.
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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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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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To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
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