The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDNow, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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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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Boredom is the root of all evil.
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In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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I 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.
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Don’t forget to love yourself.
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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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Truth 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.
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Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?
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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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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
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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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