Quote of Soren Kierkegaard - Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom....

Biography - Soren Kierkegaard:

Danish philosopher.
Born: 1813 - Died: 1855
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: Denmark
Denmark

Quote

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”
Soren Kierkegaard

Translation

(French, German)

L'angoisse est le vertige de la liberté.”
Soren Kierkegaard

Angst ist der Schwindel der Freiheit.”
Soren Kierkegaard

Quotes about freedom:

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

Article IV – Liberty consists of doing anything which does not harm others: thus, the exercise of the natural rights of each man has only those borders which assure other members of the society the enjoyment of these same rights. These borders can be determined only by the law.”
- Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789

"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."”
Hans Christian Andersen

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere.”
Nelson Mandela

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust: A Tragedy

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.”
Hannah Arendt

All about freedom...

Quotes about fear:

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
Nelson Mandela

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.”
Salvador Dalí

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.”
Baruch Spinoza - Ethics

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.”
Mark Twain

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
Bertrand Russell

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.”
Marie Curie

All about fear...

Soren Kierkegaard also said...

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

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

Man, too, has wings, he has imagination.”
Soren Kierkegaard

It is perfectly true, as the philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.”
Soren Kierkegaard - Journals

Don't forget to love yourself.”
Soren Kierkegaard

The supreme paradox of all thought is the attempt to discover something that thought cannot think.”
Soren Kierkegaard

thought

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