For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.”
SOREN KIERKEGAARDI see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it — you will regret both.
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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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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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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Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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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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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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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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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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My sorrow is my castle.
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I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it — you will regret both.
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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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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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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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