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 KIERKEGAARDThe task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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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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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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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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To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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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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Hope is a passion for the possible.
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It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing.
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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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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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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.
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What labels me, negates me.
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Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most 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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In the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart.
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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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My sorrow is my castle.
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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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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.
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I am convinced that God is love.
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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have.
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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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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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