To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDPeople demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing.
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My standpoint is armed neutrality.
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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.
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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.
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The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
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The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
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Don’t forget to love yourself.
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Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?
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Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have.
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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.
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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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