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"46 Soren Kierkegaard Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 5 May 1813. Died: 11 November 1855 | Writer | Philosopher | Theologian |

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Only Life Must Lived
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Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.

Advances Back Backwards Beginning
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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Compensation Demand Freedom Freedom Of Speech
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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
Away Paradox Professor Take
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Don't forget to love yourself.
Forget Love Love Yourself To Love
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Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

Breathless Haste Hurry Men
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Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

Change Changes Does God
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To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.

Dare Footing Lose Oneself
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Anxiety Freedom Dizziness Fear
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Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
Common Common Denominator Denominator Equalizer
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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.

Admit Always Fruitful Had
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One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Advise Comfortably Port Safe
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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Afraid Becoming Capable Doing
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During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.

Danger First Greatest Greatest Danger
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Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.
Cannot Immediately Necessary Patience
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It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

Concentrate Essential Important Most
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At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
Between Bottom Enmity Indifference
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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.

Advice Both Either Friendly
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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 moved.

Cannot Chess Feel Game
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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 at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

Begins Birth Could Cry
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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
Because Believe Hard Obey
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Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
Boredom Despairing Evil Oneself
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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.

Absurd Demand Freedom Freedom Of Speech
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People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.

Animal Birds Breeds Commonly
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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.

Call Else Embryo Exposed
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Once you label me you negate me.

Label Me Once You
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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.

Creates Does God He
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The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
Begins Dies His Martyr
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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.

Begin Bore Bores Contradict
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Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
His Made Man Only
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Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.

Gives Love Love Is Takes
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Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.

Alter Beloved Does Itself
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Purity of heart is to will one thing.

Heart One Thing Purity Thing
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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Always Dominant Expresses Life
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Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

Discover Forces Hidden Life
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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

Being Changes Face Facts
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Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

Being Evil Far Good
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People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.

About Complaint Even Me
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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.

Am Because Believe Cannot
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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.

Being Come Every Faith
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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.

About Beautiful Beautiful Things Heard
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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.

Becomes Divine Forget Greater
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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.

Accompanied Death Die Enjoyment
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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.

Being Cannot Catch Caught
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What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

Anguish Beautiful Beautiful Music Cries
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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.

Always Being Discovers Finally
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Soren Kierkegaard Quotes & Sayings