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Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.

Soren Kierkegaard

The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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Difficult Heart Inspirational
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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Eyes Myself Passion Philosophy Possible Potential Power Wealth
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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Freedom Liberty Man Sarcastic
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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Freedom People Sarcastic
Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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Faith One Liner Reflection
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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Faith Religion Sin Virtue
Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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Deep Life Past Pleasure Pursue
Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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Great Happiness Hide One Liner Place
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
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Believe Philosophy True Way
It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.
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Deep Human Philosophy Understand
What labels me, negates me.
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Myself One Liner
Hope is a passion for the possible.
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Hope One Liner Passion Possible
The 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.
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Fight God Great Person Proud Right Strength
In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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Great Life Love Sad
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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Advice Life Present Silence World
People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
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People Sarcastic Understand

Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.

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