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 existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?
SOREN KIERKEGAARDI stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDWhat if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
SOREN KIERKEGAARDIt is very important in life to know when your cue comes.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDAnd this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDDon’t forget to love yourself.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDFace the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDTo have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDThe 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 KIERKEGAARDAnxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDPeople understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDIt is impossible to exist without passion.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDIn my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDIf 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.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDThe task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDNow, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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