Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

Danish - Philosopher | May 5, 1813 - November 11, 1855

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.

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

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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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Don't forget to love yourself.

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

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

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

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Be that self which one truly is.

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

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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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