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Soren Kierkegaard13 quotes
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. — Soren Kierkegaard · 1844God 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. — Soren Kierkegaard · 1838If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility! — Soren Kierkegaard · 1843I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations-one can do either this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it-you will regret both. — Soren Kierkegaard · 1843If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin. — Soren Kierkegaard · 1843The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins. — Soren Kierkegaard · 1848All 13 quotes →