It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDIt is impossible to exist without passion.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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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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Don’t forget to love yourself.
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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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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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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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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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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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People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
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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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In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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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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The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have.
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The 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.
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