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Søren Aabye Kierkegaard
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Quote 2697
Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bidMore quotes on the topics: money ideas mind business superficiality value worthlessness
Quote 2696
Don't forget to love yourself.More quotes on the topics: love self-confidence satisfaction individualism
Quote 2695
Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizerMore quotes on the topics: troubles living mankind unity distrust
Quote 2694
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneselfMore quotes on the topics: moment risk courage fear discouragement troubles losses
Quote 2693
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you areMore quotes on the topics: facts self-knowledge self-confidence changes character
Quote 2692
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.More quotes on the topics: relationship tasks attention importance necessity
Quote 2691
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who praysMore quotes on the topics: influence god changes self-development virtue
Quote 2690
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itselfMore quotes on the topics: love passion indifference habit transience
Quote 2689
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the riskQuote 2688
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within himMore quotes on the topics: happiness self-knowledge discovery sources personality errors
Quote 2687
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.Quote 2686
There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrowMore quotes on the topics: peace rest sorrow consolation
Quote 2685
Wisdom is the supreme part of happinessMore quotes on the topics: happiness wisdom dependence
Quote 2684
Only when it is a duty to love, only then is love eternally and happily secured against despairMore quotes on the topics: love duty eternity desperation secureness
Quote 2683
Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of lifeMore quotes on the topics: repetition reality lifetime seriousness
Quote 2682
Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, alltogether incalculableMore quotes on the topics: marriage risk tradition nature changes assessment
Quote 2681
Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmthMore quotes on the topics: adversity harmony relationship winter transience
Quote 2680
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 somethingMore quotes on the topics: traveling adventure knowledge interest
Quote 2679
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 dieMore quotes on the topics: childhood sorrow sadness heart irony death
Quote 2678
Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearancesMore quotes on the topics: death passion appearance secret attention
Quote 2677
Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us -- but not suckle usMore quotes on the topics: living help carefulness support assistence
Quote 2676
Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who doQuote 2675
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becomingMore quotes on the topics: possibility fear self-knowledge talent power willpower
Quote 2674
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obeyQuote 2673
A great man is one that can develop convictions in solitude and carry them out in a crowd.More quotes on the topics: conviction ideas mind development attention agreement loneliness
Quote 2672
Love is all, it gives all, and it takes allQuote 2671
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 loveMore quotes on the topics: disease faith sadness unhappiness
Quote 2670
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 youMore quotes on the topics: truth dependence
Quote 2669
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they seldom useMore quotes on the topics: demand freedom thoughts mind speech use
Quote 2668
To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternityMore quotes on the topics: reason deception eternity losses time preparation
Quote 2667
It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its oppositeMore quotes on the topics: imperfection mankind desires opposition development
Quote 2666
That is the road we all have to take - over the Bridge of Sighs into eternityMore quotes on the topics: misfortune mankind eternity consolation
Quote 2665
Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.More quotes on the topics: personality truth character virtue self-development
Quote 2664
The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule beginsMore quotes on the topics: tyranny force death transience fame glory
Quote 2663
At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifferenceMore quotes on the topics: indifference quarrel hostility
Quote 2662
The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo, the more he can remember the more divine his life becomesMore quotes on the topics: memory self-development mind weakness
Quote 2661
Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sownMore quotes on the topics: patience necessity success reward time
Quote 2660
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.More quotes on the topics: liberty opportunity demand thoughts freedom speech
Quote 2659
Pleasure disappoints, possibility neverMore quotes on the topics: pleasure satisfaction disappointment
Quote 2658
Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes furtherMore quotes on the topics: faith passion mankind progress religion
Quote 2657
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.More quotes on the topics: lifetime force secret knowledge discovery living
Quote 2656
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedomQuote 2655
The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbelieverMore quotes on the topics: sin troubles god self-confidence
Quote 2654
To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow studentMore quotes on the topics: teaching learning education sense wisdom
Quote 1678
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and importantMore quotes on the topics: tasks relationship importance significance
Quote 1658
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughtsQuote 1640
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.More quotes on the topics: living problems reality experience
Quote 1116
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwardsMore quotes on the topics: lifetime experience self-development understanding past reality
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