What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?
SOREN KIERKEGAARDOnce you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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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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The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
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My sorrow is my castle.
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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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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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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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The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
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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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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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It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.
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Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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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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