Hope is a passion for the possible.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDWhat is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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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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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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It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.
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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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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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It is impossible to exist without passion.
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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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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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What labels me, negates me.
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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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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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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 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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What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?
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