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Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.
Soren Kierkegaard
World
Evil
Backwards
Beginning
Back
Bored
Boredom
No Wonder
Advances
Since
Spreads
Were
Very
Wonder
Gods
Goes
Human
Human Beings
Then
Root
Created
Therefore
Beings
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
Soren Kierkegaard
Happiness
Man
Thinking
Finally
Lies
Physical
Outside
Toward
Inward
Him
Within
Always
His
Source
Discovers
Being
Happiness Lies
Turned
Turns
Who
Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.
Soren Kierkegaard
Life
Love
God
Prayer
Long
Other
Earthly
Able
Mystic
He
Blend
Longs
Souls
Were
Just
Lovers
Breathe
Forth
Whisper
Moment
Each
Creep
Soft
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
Soren Kierkegaard
Love
Alter
Does
Itself
Beloved
Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.
Niels Bohr
Crazy
Be True
Enough
True
Your
Theory
The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
Niels Bohr
Truth
Fact
Well
Another
Opposite
Falsehood
Very
May
Profound
Travelling expands the mind rarely.
Hans Christian Andersen
Travel
Mind
Rarely
Travelling
A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.
Niels Bohr
Looking
Way
Atom
Physicist
Itself
Just
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
Soren Kierkegaard
Evil
Despairing
Boredom
Oneself
Refusal
Root
I love to have massages, I think it's really important to relax. In New York, I usually go to Massage Williamsburg or Great Jones Spa.
Freja Beha Erichsen
Love
Great
Relax
Important
Think
New
Massage
Go
York
New York
Really
Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
Hans Christian Andersen
You
Matter
Hatched
Born
Only
Does
Yard
Duck
Egg
Being
Swan
People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.
Soren Kierkegaard
Travel
Animal
People
World
Seen
Fall
Mountains
Stars
Think
Birds
Freak
See
Something
Rivers
Over
New
Fish
Existence
Human
Commonly
Breeds
Grotesque
How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
Soren Kierkegaard
Freedom
Thought
Men
Freedom Of Speech
Those
Liberties
Never
Absurd
Demand
How
Use
Speech
A beautiful person is someone who stays true to themselves and their spirit; someone who is self-confident and can make you smile.
Helena Christensen
Smile
Beautiful
You
Spirit
Stays
Someone
Self-Confident
True
Beautiful Person
Make
Person
Themselves
Who
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.
Niels Bohr
You
Logical
Thinking
Just
Being
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
Soren Kierkegaard
Man
Nothing
Every
He
Know
Becoming
How
Doing
Getting
Afraid
Which
Capable
Much
Every Man
Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
Soren Kierkegaard
Truth
Man
Personality
Made
Own
Ripe
Only
His
The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.
Soren Kierkegaard
Truth
You
Truth Is
Way
Only
Catch
Without
Caught
Snare
Being
Cannot
Such A Way
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
Soren Kierkegaard
Obey
Believe
Because
Hard
If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.
Arne Jacobsen
Art
Architecture
Building
Becomes
Then
The one thing all humans share is that we all inhabit the same limited amount of real estate, which is Planet Earth.
Bjarke Ingels
Real Estate
Earth
One Thing
Share
Limited
Real
Same
The One Thing
Estate
Which
Planet
Planet Earth
Inhabit
Thing
Amount
Humans
Purity of heart is to will one thing.
Soren Kierkegaard
Heart
Will
One Thing
Purity
Thing
Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die.
Soren Kierkegaard
Heart
Long
Out
Lodged
Stays
Shall
Since
Sorrow
Am
Ironic
Die
Childhood
Earliest
Pulled
It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.
Soren Kierkegaard
World
Admit
Oneself
Had
She
Occasionally
Always
Quarrel
Whereas
Fruitful
Fruitless
Interesting
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
Soren Kierkegaard
Good
Evil
Rather
Only
True
Idleness
Being
Far
Root
Don't worry about not fitting in. The things that make people think you're weird are what makes you you, and therefore your greatest strength.
Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
Strength
You
People
Think
Worry
About
Weird
Make
Makes
Greatest
Greatest Strength
Fitting
Fitting In
Your
Therefore
Things
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