Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
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Søren Kierkegaard
Danish philosopher and theologian, a founder of existentialist thought. Wrote Fear and Trembling and Either/Or; lived 1813–1855.
10 quotes
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside will never be happy.
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
It belongs to the imperfection of man that he often chooses what is worse because it is easier.
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.