50+ Soren Kierkegaard Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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Experience Life Problem Reality
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
Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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Deep Life Past Pleasure Pursue
Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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God Myself One Liner Spiritual
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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Faith God Himself Love Person Philosophy Reflection
To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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Faith God Lose Mind
Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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Great Happiness Hide One Liner Place
The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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Be Yourself
Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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Life Live Philosophy Understand
Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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Fear Yourself
Hope is a passion for the possible.
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Hope One Liner Passion Possible
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
Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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Faith One Liner Reflection
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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Act Action Deep Easy Religious Understand
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 most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have.
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Future Pain Remember Yourself
I am convinced that God is love.
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Convince God Love One Liner Spiritual
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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Freedom Mental One Liner
My standpoint is armed neutrality.
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Myself One Liner
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
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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Afraid Deep Inspirational Man Philosophy
Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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Born Death Philosophy Yourself
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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Advice Life Present Silence World
Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth — look at the dying man’s struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.
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Beginning Born Cry Death Deep End Enjoyment Man Philosophy Woman
Don’t forget to love yourself.
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One Liner Self Love Yourself
It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.
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Deep Human Philosophy Understand
The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
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Believe Eyes God Great Philosophy Religion Sin Trouble

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