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Great Quotes by Soren Kierkegaard
- So to be sick unto death is, not to be able to die-yet not as though there were hope of life; no, the hopelessness in…
- The great trick with a woman is to get rid of her while she think's she's rid of you.
- Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this homey, civil togetherness,…
- ...it is presumptuous ridicule of God if someone thinks that only the person who desires great wealth chooses mammon. Alas, the person who insists on…
- The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards…
- 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…
- The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker…
- Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.
- If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting…
- The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he…
- As I stood alone and forsaken, and the power of the sea and the battle of the elements reminded me of my own nothingness, and…
- ...even the richest personality is nothing before he has chosen himself, and on the other hand even what one might call the poorest personality is…
- In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
- In the end, therefore, money will be the one thing people will desire, which is moreover only representative, an abstraction. Nowadays a young man hardly…
- Thus our own age is essentially one of understanding, and on the average, perhaps, more knowledgeable than any former generation, but it is without passion.…
- The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker…
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