Soren Kierkegaard Zitate auf Englisch

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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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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

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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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Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.

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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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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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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.

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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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Once you label me you negate me.

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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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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.

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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.

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Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.

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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.

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To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.

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