Wednesday, June 10, 2009

From Soren Kierkegaard

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

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

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

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential -- for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible.

Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.

Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays.

Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)

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