My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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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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Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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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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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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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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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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To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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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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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 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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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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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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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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