Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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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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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Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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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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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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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 stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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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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It is impossible to exist without passion.
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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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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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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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It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.
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The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have.
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