Tag: Soren Kierkegaard
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To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
Soren Kierkegaard
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It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.
Soren Kierkegaard
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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.
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.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Once you label me you negate me.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
Soren Kierkegaard
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The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.
Soren Kierkegaard
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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.
Soren Kierkegaard