Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDLife is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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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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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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For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.”
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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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My sorrow is my castle.
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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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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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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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Boredom is the root of all evil.
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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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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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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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