People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDThere is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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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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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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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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It is impossible to exist without passion.
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Boredom is the root of all evil.
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People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
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My sorrow is my castle.
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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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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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Listen 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.
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Hope is a passion for the possible.
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My standpoint is armed neutrality.
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