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Explore the insightful and often challenging wisdom of Soren Kierkegaard, one of the most influential philosophers of the 19th century. This collection features his powerful quotes on the human condition, the nature of existence, and the importance of individual truth. Discover ideas that resonate with thinkers like Friedrich Nietzsche, Albert Camus, and Jean-Paul Sartre.

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00:00Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
00:06Søren Kierkegaard
00:10The most painful human experience is to be like a bird, to have the urge to fly, but to be
00:16shut up in a cage.
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00:22The greatest danger, that of losing oneself, may pass off in the most unnoticed way at every moment.
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00:33To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
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00:45Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
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00:55Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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01:03Faith is the paradox, the absolute paradox, which can guide the man who cannot help himself.
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01:14The crowd is untruth.
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01:21Truth exists only in the individual.
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01:29To be is to choose.
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01:35The greatest risk that a man can take is to be himself.
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01:45If you marry, you will regret it, if you do not marry, you will also regret it.
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01:55The thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can
02:00live and die.
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02:06The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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02:14He who has learned to despair has learned the highest.
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02:23My own is the only thing that is mine.
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02:28Duty is a sign of God's favor in the world.
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02:39One must be awake to live.
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02:46The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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02:56When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
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03:04The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can make a situation.
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