I am convinced that God is love.
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.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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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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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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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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Life can only be understood backward, but 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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My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
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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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It is impossible to exist without passion.
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What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?
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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 so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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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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