Quotes by Soren Kierkegaard

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

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

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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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"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom."

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

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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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"The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays."

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

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"Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts."

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"Don't forget to love yourself."

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

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

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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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"Once you label me you negate me."

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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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"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."

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