People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDTruth 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.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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It is impossible to exist without passion.
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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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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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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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It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.
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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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Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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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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In the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart.
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What labels me, negates me.
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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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What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.
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I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it — you will regret both.
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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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