My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDIt is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.
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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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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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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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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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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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What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?
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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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Don’t forget to love yourself.
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My standpoint is armed neutrality.
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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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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The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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