Quotes - Mar Yan (Para, 53, Philippines) Showing 1-30 of 65

#1

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

tags: future, life, past, reflection, understanding

9017 likes

#2

“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

tags: life, reality

2148 likes

#3

“I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it — you will regret both.”
― Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

tags: life, regret

1327 likes

#4

“In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant… My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known — no wonder, then, that I return the love.”
― Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

tags: depression

1012 likes

#5

“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

tags: blindness, fools, self-deception, truth, willful-blindness, willful-ignorance

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#6

“Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

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#7

“Love is the expression of the one who loves, not of the one who is loved. Those who think they can love only the people they prefer do not love at all. Love discovers truths about individuals that others cannot see”
― Soren Kierkegaard

869 likes

#8

“If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

tags: philosophy

560 likes

#9

“The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

1268 likes

#10

“I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

tags: frustration, futility, life

213 likes

#11

“The most common form of despair is not being who you are.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

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#12

“It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

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#13

“On the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart”
― Søren Kierkegaard

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#14

“It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand...”
― Søren Kierkegaard

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#15

“People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, The Journals of Kierkegaard

2031 likes

#16

“Wittgenstein once wrote that when the eye sees something beautiful, the hand wants to draw it. I wish I could draw you.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

tags: beauty

202 likes

#17

“If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

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#18

“For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed.

The riddle does not exist.

If a question can be put at all, then it can also be answered.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

98 likes

#19

“What can be shown, cannot be said.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

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#20

“One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is. ”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

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#21

“Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

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#22

“Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.”
― Saint Thomas Aquinas

128 likes

#24

“Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?”
― Martin Heidegger, Introduction to Metaphysics

tags: metaphysics, philosophy

184 likes

#25

“People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.”
― Jean Jacques Rousseau

tags: wisdom

1142 likes

#26

“Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.”
― Jean Jacques Rousseau

tags: inspirational, wisdom

232 likes

#27

“Love, known to the person by whom it is inspired, becomes more bearable.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau

tags: love

52 likes

#28

“Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it. ”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau

220 likes

#29

“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

tags: love

31290 likes

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