Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDI 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.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDTherefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
SOREN KIERKEGAARDHappiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDIt is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDIt is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDWhat if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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.
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.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDNow, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDTake away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDWhat is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?
SOREN KIERKEGAARDThe most common form of despair is not being who you are.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDFace the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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 KIERKEGAARDTo have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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