Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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Boredom is the root of all evil.
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Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
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The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.
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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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If 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.
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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.
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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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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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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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It is impossible to exist without passion.
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Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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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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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.
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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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In the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart.
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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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