To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDIn the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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My standpoint is armed neutrality.
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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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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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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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Don’t forget to love yourself.
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In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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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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People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding 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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Hope is a passion for the possible.
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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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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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What labels me, negates me.
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The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
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