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Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Soren Kierkegaard
Age: 42 †
Born: 1813
Born: January 1
Died: 1855
Died: January 1
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The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that.
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Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false.
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The great trick with a woman is to get rid of her while she think's she's rid of you.
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When all combine in every way to make everything easier, people will want difficulty. I conceived it as my task to make difficulties everywhere.
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The most terrible fight is not when there is one opinion against another, the most terrible is when two men say the same thing -- and fight about the interpretation, and this interpretation involves a difference of quality.
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The truth is lived before it is understood. It must be fought for, tested, and appropriated. Truth is the way... Anyone will easily understand it if he just gives himself to it.
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Only the noble of heart are called to difficulty.
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Hope is a passion for the possible.
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Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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Every mental act is composed of doubt and belief, but it is belief that is the positive, it is belief that sustains thought and holds the world together.
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Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
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Most people rush after pleasure so fast that they rush right past it.
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Pleasure disappoints possibility never.
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Who am I? How did I come into the world? Why was I not consulted?
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There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
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No, I won't leave the world--I'll enter a lunatic asylum and see if the profundity of insanity reveals to me the riddles of life. Idiot, why didn't I do that long ago, why has it taken me so long to understand what it means when the Indians honour the insane, step aside for them? Yes, a lunatic asylum--don't you think I may end up there?
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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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Irony is the birth-pangs of the objective mind (based upon the misrelationship, discovered by the I , between existence and the idea of existence). Humor is the birth -pangs of the absolute mind (based upon the misrelationship, discovered by the I , between the I and the idea of the I .
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