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.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDThe highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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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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It is impossible to exist without passion.
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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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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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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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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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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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In the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart.
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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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What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?
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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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