Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDNow, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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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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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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In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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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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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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I am convinced that God is love.
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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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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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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 task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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It is impossible to exist without passion.
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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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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
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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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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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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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Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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Don’t forget to love yourself.
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Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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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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