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 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.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
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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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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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Boredom is the root of all evil.
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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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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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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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In the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart.
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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing.
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Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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Don’t forget to love yourself.
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What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.
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