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Søren Kierkegaard

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“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”— Søren Kierkegaard
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“Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.”— Søren Kierkegaard
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“Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.”— Søren Kierkegaard
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“Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.”— Søren Kierkegaard
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“Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.”— Søren Kierkegaard
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“It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.”— Søren Kierkegaard
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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.”— Søren Kierkegaard
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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.”— Søren Kierkegaard
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“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.”— Søren Kierkegaard
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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.”— Søren Kierkegaard
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“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”— Søren Kierkegaard
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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.”— Søren Kierkegaard
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“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”— Søren Kierkegaard
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“God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.”— Søren Kierkegaard
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“If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.”— Søren Kierkegaard
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“Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.”— Søren Kierkegaard
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“Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.”— Søren Kierkegaard
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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.”— Søren Kierkegaard
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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.”— Søren Kierkegaard
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“The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.”— Søren Kierkegaard
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“A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.”— Søren Kierkegaard
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“Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.”— Søren Kierkegaard
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“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”— Søren Kierkegaard
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“The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.”— Søren Kierkegaard
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“Don't forget to love yourself.”— Søren Kierkegaard