Søren Kierkegaard
Danish philosopher
Lived from: 1813 - 1855
Category: Philosophers Country: 
Denmark
Born: 5 may 1813 Died: 11 november 1855
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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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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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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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Be that self which one truly is.
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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.
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Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
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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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During the first period of a man's life, the danger is not to take the risk.
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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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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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Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
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Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay, but like a child waking from its sleep with a heavenly smile.
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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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How ironical that it is by means of speech that man can degrade himself below the level of dumb creation - for a chatterbox is truly of a lower category than a dumb creature.
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I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
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I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep, for that would be a pity, for sleeping is the highest accomplishment of genius.
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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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In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known - no wonder, then, that I return the love.
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It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.
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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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