The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDHope is a passion for the possible.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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I am convinced that God is love.
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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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Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
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Hope is a passion for the possible.
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Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory.
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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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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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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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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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Don’t forget to love yourself.
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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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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible.
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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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The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased. If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice, I should reply, ‘Create silence’.
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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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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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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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