Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDThere are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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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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People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
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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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Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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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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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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I am convinced that God is love.
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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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My sorrow is my castle.
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It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.
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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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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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Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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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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