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’.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDI am convinced that God is love.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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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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What labels me, negates me.
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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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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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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.
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My sorrow is my castle.
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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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What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?
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In the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart.
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It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.
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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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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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