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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.

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

Soren Kierkegaard

Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.

Soren Kierkegaard

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

Soren Kierkegaard

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

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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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Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.

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Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

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Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.

Soren Kierkegaard

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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At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

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Purity of heart is to will one thing.

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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

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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.

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The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.

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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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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

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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.

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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.

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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

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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.

Soren Kierkegaard

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.

Soren Kierkegaard

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

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Be that self which one truly is.

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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.

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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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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

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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.

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Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

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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.

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Don't forget to love yourself.

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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.

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Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

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

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

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