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

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• Soren Kierkegaard:

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

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  Don't forget to love yourself.

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

• Soren Kierkegaard:

  Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

• Soren Kierkegaard:

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

• Soren Kierkegaard:

  Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

• Soren Kierkegaard:

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

• Soren Kierkegaard:

  It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasio

• Soren Kierkegaard:

  One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

• Soren Kierkegaard:

  There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is cap