People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDIn my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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Boredom is the root of all evil.
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My sorrow is my castle.
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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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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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Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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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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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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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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The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.
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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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What labels me, negates me.
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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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Hope is a passion for the possible.
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