Søren Kierkegaard quote: "Love is the expression of the one who loves, not of the one who is loved. Those who think they can love only the people they prefer do not love at all. Love discovers truths about individuals that others cannot see"

The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.
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Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because...
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The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We preten...
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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
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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 function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays...
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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense...
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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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Once you label me you negate me.
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Every mental act is composed of doubt and belief,
but it is belief that is the positive, it is ...
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When one has once fully entered the realm of love, the world — no matter how imperfect — becomes...
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Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate.
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I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My hon...
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The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were ...
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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed tha...
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And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of ...
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The more he needs God, the more deeply he comprehends he is in need of God, and then the more he in ...
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The matter is quite simple. The bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of s...
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You love the accidental. A smile from a pretty girl in an interesting situation, a stolen glance, th...
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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 believ...
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Now, with God's help, I shall become myself.
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The difference between an admirer and a follower still remains, no matter where you are. The admirer...
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The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it ...
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The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
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To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
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What labels me, negates me.
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A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.
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Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him, for even the prodigal son who had falle...
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God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonde...
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To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self.... And to venture in the highes...
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When you are one of several, then you have lost your freedom; you cannot send for your traveling boo...
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For I have trained myself and am training myself always to be able to dance lightly in the service o...
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آیا مضحک تر از این مردم یافت می شود، که هیچ وقت از آزادی ...
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People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understan...
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Therefore, truth is not a matter of knowing this or that but of being in the truth.
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The task is not to find the lovable object, but to find the object before you lovable – whether gi...
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Besides, Christianity is not a doctrine to be taught, but rather a life to be lived.
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It is unbelievable what a person of prayer can achieve if he would but close the doors behind him.
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Metaphorically speaking, a person's ideas must be the building he lives in - otherwise there is some...
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The greatest danger to Christianity is, I contend, not heresies, heterodoxies, not atheists, not pro...
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There is something frightful in the fact that the most dangerous thing of all, playing at Christiani...
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In relationship to God one can not involve himself to a certain degree. God is precisely the contrad...
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Skal man hjelpe en annen, må man først finne ut hvor han er, og møte ham der. Dette er det først...
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If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wi...
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Whether you are man or woman, rich or poor, dependent or free, happy or unhappy; whether you bore in...
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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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I am courteous enough to assume that everyone in this so aesthetically voluptuous age, so potent and...
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Don't you know that a midnight hour comes when everyone has to take off his mask? Do you think life ...
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How did I get into the world? Why was I not asked about it and why was I not informed of the rules a...
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A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was ...
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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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It is the thought, not the incidentals of expression, that essentially makes an exposition unpopular...
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And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has...
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I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be mo...
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If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin...
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It is a positive starting point for philosophy when Aristotle says that philosophy begins with wonde...
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The majority enjoy a young girl as they enjoy a glass of champagne, at one effervescent moment-oh, y...
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دردها، اگر فرد را نشکنند، به او غرور می آموزند.
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I have just now come from a party where I was its life and soul; witticisms streamed from my lips, e...
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If anyone thinks he has faith and yet is indifferent towards this possession, is neither cold nor ho...
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What am I? The modest narrator who accompanies your triumphs; the dancer who supports you when you r...
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My love consumes me. Only my voice is left, a voice which has fallen in love with you whispers to yo...
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Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
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In a theater, it happened that a fire started offstage. The clown came out to tell the audience. The...
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To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there i...
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Idleness, we are accustomed to say, is the root of all evil. To prevent this evil, work is recommend...
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People try to persuade us that the objections against Christianity spring from doubt. That is a comp...
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With every increase in the degree of consciousness, and in proportion to that increase, the intensit...
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When I was young, I forgot how to laugh in the cave of Trophonius; when I was older, I opened my eye...
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The most ludicrous of all ludicrous things, it seems to me, is to be busy in the world, to be a man ...
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What is youth? A dream. What is love? The dream's content.
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When I get up in the morning, I go right back to bed again. I feel best in the evening the moment I ...
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Loving just one is too little; loving all is being superficial; knowing yourself and loving as many ...
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Aren't people absurd! They never use the freedoms they do have but demand those they don't have; the...
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شاعر کیست؟ انسانی اندوهگین که غم ژرفش را در قلب نهان می ...
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I have never been joyful, and yet it has always seemed as if joy were my constant companion, as if t...
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... به همین خاطر است که جان من پیوسته به سوی عهد عتیق و شک�...
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No one comes back from the dead, no one has entered the world without crying; no one is asked when h...
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My life is absolutely meaningless. When I consider the different periods into which it falls, it see...
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...my soul always reverts to the Old Testament and to Shakespeare. There at least one feels that it'...
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من زمانم را این گونه قسمت کرده ام: نیمش را می خوابم، و در...
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Language has time as its element; all other media have space as their element.
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My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in retu...
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...even the richest personality is nothing before he has chosen himself, and on the other hand even ...
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My time I divide as follows: the one half I sleep; the other half I dream. I never dream when I slee...
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Let other complain that the age is wicked; my complaint is that it is paltry; for it lacks passion. ...
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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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The same thing happened to me that, according to legend, happened to Parmeniscus, who in the Trophon...
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Your own tactic is to train yourself in the art of becoming enigmatic to everybody. My young friend,...
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I have the courage, I believe, to doubt everything; I have the courage, I believe, to fight with eve...
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I have only one friend, and that is echo. Why is it my friend? Because I love my sorrow, and echo do...
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In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant… My depression ...
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On the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart
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It happened that a fire broke out backstage in a theater. The clown came out to inform the public. T...
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No! No one who was great in the world will be forgotten, but everyone was great in his own way, and ...
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I am a fork, and I will stick you!
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Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy — to be a man who is brisk ab...
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Ulysses was not comely, but he was eloquent,
Yet he fired two goddesses of the sea with love
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Jeg kommer netop nu fra et Selskab, hvor jeg var Sjælen; Vittigheder strømmede ud fra min Mund, al...
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شایع ترین نوع نومیدی آن است که فرد نخواهد خودش باشد.
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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 function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays...
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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
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Once you label me you negate me.
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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.
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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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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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A Swede quoting a Dane
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Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
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The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
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Be that self which one truly is.
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During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
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People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not under...
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I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My hones...
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The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a ...
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Don't forget to love yourself.
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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They...
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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are ...
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The thinker without a paradox is like a lover without a feeling: a paltry mediocrity.
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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet los...
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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one fo...
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Philosophy is perfectly right in saying that life must be understood backward. But then one forgets ...
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The commandment is that you shall love, but when you understand life and yourself, then it is as if ...
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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, b...
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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forewards. -Soren Kierkegaard.
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Don't forget to love yourself. -Soren Kierkegaard.
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The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays...
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Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened b...
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Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays.
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It is a wonderful thing to see a first-rate philosopher at prayer. Tough-minded thinking and tenderh...
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The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo, the m...
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The Media is an abstraction (because a newspaper is not concrete and only in an abstract sense can b...
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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.
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If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense...
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Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even...
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Spiritual superiority only sees the individual. But alas, ordinarily we human beings are sensual and...
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If mankind had not embedded itself, with the momentum of centuries and the passion of habit, in the ...
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Once you label me you negate 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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The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its con...
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Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
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Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the co...
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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair t...
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Boredom is the root of all evil--the despairing refusal to be oneself.
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I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore ...
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It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most signifi...
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How ironical that it is by means of speech that man can degrade himself below the level of dumb crea...
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At one time my only wish was to be a police official. It seemed to me to be an occupation for my sle...
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Only one human being recognized as one's neighbour is necessary in order to cure a man of self-love
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Worldly wisdom thinks that love is a relationship between man and man. Christianity teachers that lo...
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Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale....
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Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravag...
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The self is only that which it is in the process of becoming.
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Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but n...
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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...
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The most terrible fight is not when there is one opinion against another, the most terrible is when ...
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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capa...
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God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonde...
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Not even a suicide does away with himself out of desperation, he considers the act so long and so de...
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Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life.
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Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so l...
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The individual (no matter how well-meaning he might be, no matter how much strength he might have, i...
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Geniuses are like thunderstorms. They go against the wind, terrify people, cleanse the air.
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Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
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The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to pa...
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Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because...
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The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in sea...
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Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved.
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I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be mo...
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In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is...
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Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He...
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Purity of heart is to will one thing.
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Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic...
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During the first period of a man's life, the danger is not to take the risk.
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When you open the door which you shut in order to pray to God, the first person you meet as you go o...
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There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow
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I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sle...
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To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there i...
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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.
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There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life...
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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love fo...
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Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.
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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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Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.
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One can advise comfortably from a safe port.
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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 stru...
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Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
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A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies ...
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Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
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To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
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Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
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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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Love is the expression of the one who loves, not of the one who is loved. Those who think they can love only the people they prefer do not love at all. Love discovers truths about individuals that others cannot see

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