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Soren Kierkegaard


Danish
May 5, 1813
Philosopher
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.


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Don't forget to love yourself.


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


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Tags: God Change Who
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Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.


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Tags: Truth Only Own
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Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.


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Tags: You Life Which
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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If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.
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Tags: God Because Am
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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Tags: Men Freedom Never
Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die.
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Tags: Out Am I Am
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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Tags: Death Life Most
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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Tags: Music Like Who
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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Tags: Great Just Who
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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Tags: Me Something Then
Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.
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Tags: God Just Life