It is a positive starting point for philosophy when Aristotle says that philosophy begins with wonder, not as in our day with doubt. Moreover the world will learn that the thing is not to begin with the negative, and the reason why it has succeeded up to the present is that it has never really given itself over to the negative, and so has never seriously done what it said. It's doubt is mere child's play.


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Spiritual superiority only sees the individual. But alas, ordinarily we human beings are sensual and...
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If mankind had not embedded itself, with the momentum of centuries and the passion of habit, in the ...
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Once you label me you negate me.
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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its con...
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Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
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Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the co...
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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair t...
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Boredom is the root of all evil--the despairing refusal to be oneself.
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I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore ...
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It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most signifi...
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How ironical that it is by means of speech that man can degrade himself below the level of dumb crea...
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At one time my only wish was to be a police official. It seemed to me to be an occupation for my sle...
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Only one human being recognized as one's neighbour is necessary in order to cure a man of self-love
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Worldly wisdom thinks that love is a relationship between man and man. Christianity teachers that lo...
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Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale....
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Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravag...
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The self is only that which it is in the process of becoming.
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Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but n...
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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...
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The most terrible fight is not when there is one opinion against another, the most terrible is when ...
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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capa...
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God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonde...
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Not even a suicide does away with himself out of desperation, he considers the act so long and so de...
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Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life.
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Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so l...
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The individual (no matter how well-meaning he might be, no matter how much strength he might have, i...
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Geniuses are like thunderstorms. They go against the wind, terrify people, cleanse the air.
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Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
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The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to pa...
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Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because...
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The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in sea...
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Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved.
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I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be mo...
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In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is...
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Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He...
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Purity of heart is to will one thing.
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Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
During the first period of a man's life, the danger is not to take the risk.
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When you open the door which you shut in order to pray to God, the first person you meet as you go o...
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There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow
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I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sle...
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To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there i...
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Life can only be understood back- wards; but it must be lived forwards.
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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forward.
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There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life...
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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love fo...
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Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.
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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.
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One can advise comfortably from a safe port.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's stru...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
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A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies ...
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Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
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To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
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Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
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Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the in...
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