What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?
SOREN KIERKEGAARDAnxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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Boredom is the root of all evil.
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Don’t forget to love yourself.
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I am convinced that God is love.
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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.
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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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It is impossible to exist without passion.
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To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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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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The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased. If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice, I should reply, ‘Create silence’.
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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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My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
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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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People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
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