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" Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment. "

Soren Kierkegaard

Giving

Struggle

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Understand

Understanding

" The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins. "

" People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. "

" Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor. "

" I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved. "

" 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. "

" God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners. "

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

" Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good. "

" 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 becomes. "

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Remember

Man

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

" Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. "

" Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. "

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Anxiety

Freedom

" 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. "

" Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 this. "

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Prove

Great

" Be that self which one truly is. "

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

" Purity of heart is to will one thing. "

" I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both. "

" Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood. "

" Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. "

" Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. "

" The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived. "