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Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.

Soren Kierkegaard

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.
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Fight God Great Person Proud Right Strength
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
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Function God Nature Philosophy Prayer
My standpoint is armed neutrality.
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Myself One Liner
The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have.
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Future Pain Remember Yourself
Don’t forget to love yourself.
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One Liner Self Love Yourself
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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Deep Illusion Majority Oppression Politics Strong Truth
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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Deep Forget Life Live Philosophy True Understand
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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Equality Interest Life Myself Philosophy
Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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Fear Yourself
What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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Deep Laughter Philosophy Tears World
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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Freedom Liberty Man Sarcastic
Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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Past Philosophy Present Remember
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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Believe Philosophy True Way
Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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Faith One Liner Reflection
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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Faith Religion Sin Virtue
I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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Deep Existence Fingers Myself Philosophy

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