Quotes by Soren Kierkegaard

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.

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There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it...

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

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The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls...

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The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life...

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The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor...

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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

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Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long...

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Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that...

#Boredom

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

#Anxiety

Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us - but not suckle us.

#Philosophical, #Thought-Provoking