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.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDTo have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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Hope is a passion for the possible.
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Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.
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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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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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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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It 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.
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The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
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It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.
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It is impossible to exist without passion.
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