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’.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDIn the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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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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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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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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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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To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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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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My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
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In the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart.
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My standpoint is armed neutrality.
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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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Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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