People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDThere are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased. If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice, I should reply, ‘Create silence’.
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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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I am convinced that God is love.
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To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.
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In the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart.
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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible.
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For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.”
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Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory.
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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 Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.
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