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.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDThe 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.
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.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDIt is very important in life to know when your cue comes.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDOnce you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDAnxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDTake away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDPeople understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDBoredom is the root of all evil.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDNow, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDMany of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDListen 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.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDIt is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDMy melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDWhy bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
SOREN KIERKEGAARDThere are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDThe most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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