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.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDAbove all, do not lose your desire to walk.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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My standpoint is armed neutrality.
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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.
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What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.
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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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Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth — look at the dying man’s struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.
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I am convinced that God is love.
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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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To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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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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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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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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In the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart.
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