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 KIERKEGAARDAnd this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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It is impossible to exist without passion.
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What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.
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I am convinced that God is love.
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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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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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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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My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
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To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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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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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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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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Boredom is the root of all evil.
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