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 KIERKEGAARDTake away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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Boredom is the root of all evil.
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What labels me, negates me.
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My sorrow is my castle.
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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 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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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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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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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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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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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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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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My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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