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 bid

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• Quote 2696

  Don't forget to love yourself.

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• Quote 2695

  Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer

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• Quote 2694

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

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• Quote 2693

  Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are

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• Quote 2692

  It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

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• Quote 2691

  The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays

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• Quote 2690

  Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself

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• Quote 2689

  During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk

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• Quote 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 him

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• Quote 2687

  Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

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• Quote 2686

  There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow

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• Quote 2685

  Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness

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• Quote 2684

  Only when it is a duty to love, only then is love eternally and happily secured against despair

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• Quote 2683

  Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life

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• Quote 2682

  Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, alltogether incalculable

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• 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 warmth

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• 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 something

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• 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 die

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• 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 appearances

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• Quote 2677

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

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• Quote 2676

  Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do

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• Quote 2675

  There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming

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• Quote 2674

  It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey

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• Quote 2673

  A great man is one that can develop convictions in solitude and carry them out in a crowd.

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