Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

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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