It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDLife can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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I am convinced that God is love.
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To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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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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It is impossible to exist without passion.
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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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The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
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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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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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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.
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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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My standpoint is armed neutrality.
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