Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing.
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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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What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?
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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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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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The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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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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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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In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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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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My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
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Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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