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.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDIn the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.
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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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My sorrow is my castle.
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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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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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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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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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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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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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In the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart.
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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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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible.
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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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