For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.”
SOREN KIERKEGAARDThe greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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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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In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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In the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart.
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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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To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?
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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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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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Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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My sorrow is my castle.
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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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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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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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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