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.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDNow, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
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Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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My standpoint is armed neutrality.
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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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What labels me, negates me.
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To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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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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The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
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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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Hope is a passion for the possible.
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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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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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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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