The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDIt is impossible to exist without passion.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.
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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what 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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Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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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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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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In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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Boredom is the root of all evil.
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Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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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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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
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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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