The question is asked in ignorance, by one who does not even know what can have led him to ask it.
Soren KierkegaardChoose to be who you are. . . The individual who would become a person must at some point take over his entire being - must, that is, choose herself.
Soren KierkegaardShows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false.
Soren KierkegaardIt requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.
Soren KierkegaardThe most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.
Soren KierkegaardIf there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything great or inconsequential; if an unfathomable, insatiable emptiness lay hid beneath everything, what would life be but despair?
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