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When you are one of several, then you have lost your freedom; you cannot send for your traveling boots whenever you wish, you cannot move aimlessly about in the world. ~ Either/Or


Søren Kierkegaard

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KIERKEGAARD People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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SOREN KIERKEGAARD Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but n...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth --look at the dying man's struggle...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD The most terrible fight is not when there is one opinion against another, the most terrible is when ...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capa...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonde...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Not even a suicide does away with himself out of desperation, he considers the act so long and so de...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so l...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD The individual (no matter how well-meaning he might be, no matter how much strength he might have, i...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Geniuses are like thunderstorms. They go against the wind, terrify people, cleanse the air.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to pa...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in sea...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be mo...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Purity of heart is to will one thing.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD During the first period of a man's life, the danger is not to take the risk.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD When you open the door which you shut in order to pray to God, the first person you meet as you go o...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow
SOREN KIERKEGAARD I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sle...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there i...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Life can only be understood back- wards; but it must be lived forwards.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forward.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love fo...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD One can advise comfortably from a safe port.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's stru...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies ...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the in...
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