Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backward.
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Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
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Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.
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Once you label me you negate me.
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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
Soren Kierkegaard quote

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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Biography

Philosopher, 1813 - 1855