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Søren Kierkegaard - Quotes

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
Søren Kierkegaard

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Søren Kierkegaard

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.


Most people are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, frightfully objective sometimes — but the task is precisely to be objective toward oneself and subjective toward all others.