What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?
SOREN KIERKEGAARDIt is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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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 melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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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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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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Don’t forget to love yourself.
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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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To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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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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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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I am convinced that God is love.
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Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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