Danish - Philosopher | May 5, 1813 - November 11, 1855
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
Soren Kierkegaard
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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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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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It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.
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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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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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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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One can advise comfortably from a safe port.
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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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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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Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
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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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