Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Quote by Soren Kierkegaard
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
- Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.
- 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.
- The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.
- The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.
- Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
- Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
- Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
- People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
- Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.
- Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
Best Quotes
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- If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.
- Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.
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- Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
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