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.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDWhat if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.
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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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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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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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Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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It is impossible to exist without passion.
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The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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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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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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Boredom is the root of all evil.
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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’.
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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.
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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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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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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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What labels me, negates me.
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Don’t forget to love yourself.
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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 standpoint is armed neutrality.
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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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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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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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