Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDWhat if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.
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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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People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.
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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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Hope is a passion for the possible.
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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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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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And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.
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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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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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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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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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Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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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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I am convinced that God is love.
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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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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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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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Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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