Boredom is the root of all evil.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDNow, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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My sorrow is my castle.
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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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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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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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It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.
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My standpoint is armed neutrality.
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Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
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Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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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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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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The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have.
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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
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People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
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It is impossible to exist without passion.
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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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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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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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The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
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In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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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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