It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDTake away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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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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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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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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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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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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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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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible.
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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 standpoint is armed neutrality.
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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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I am convinced that God is love.
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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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