QUOTES by Soren Kierkegaard
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The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.
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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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Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
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It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.
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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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Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.
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It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.
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The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.
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I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
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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 if it is pulled out I shall die.
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Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
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There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.
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Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.
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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 seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.
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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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People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.
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I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God
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A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized prayer is listening.
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Most people are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, frightfully objective sometimes--but the task is precisely to be objective toward oneself and subjective toward all others.
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For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.
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To be a woman is something so strange, so confusing and so complicated that only a woman could put up with it.
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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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It is not the path which is the difficulty; rather, it is the difficulty which is the path.
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It is better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed. The result may be the same, but you won't be. We always grow more through defeats than victories.
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The minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion.
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Are you not aware that there comes a midnight hour when everyone must unmask...
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Christ has not only spoken to us by his life but has also spoken for us by his death.
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O Luther, you had 95 theses . . . The matter is far more terrible-there is only one thesis. The Christianity of the New Testament does not exist at all. Here there is nothing to reform.
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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 always lets itself be trifled with? Do you think you can sneak off a little before midnight to escape this?
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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.
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