Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDThe proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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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 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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In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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What labels me, negates me.
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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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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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My sorrow is my castle.
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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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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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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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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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