It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDThe 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’.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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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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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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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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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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Boredom is the root of all evil.
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Don’t forget to love yourself.
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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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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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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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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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Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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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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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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