"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."

Soren Kierkegaard

(Source: thinksquad, via quotesforintellectuals)

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"The most common form of despair is not being who you are."

Søren Kierkegaard

(Source: illuminatedbeing, via human-voices)

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

Søren Kierkegaard

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"I have just now come from a party where I was its life and soul; witticisms streamed from my lips, everyone laughed and admired me, but I went away — yes, the dash should be as long as the radius of the earth’s orbit ——————————— and wanted to shoot myself."

Søren Kierkegaard

(Source: human-voices)

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"Pleasure dissapoints, not possibility."

Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or

(Source: human-voices)

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"The thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die."

Søren Kierkegaard
(via human-voices)

(via human-voices)

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