It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.
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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I am convinced that God is love.
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Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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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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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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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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My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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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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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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My standpoint is armed neutrality.
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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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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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Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
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