For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.”
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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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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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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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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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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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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People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
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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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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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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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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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Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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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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Hope is a passion for the possible.
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