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.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDIt is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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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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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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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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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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Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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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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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 highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.
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In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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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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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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