My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
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.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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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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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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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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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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The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
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My standpoint is armed neutrality.
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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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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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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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My sorrow is my castle.
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Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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