Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
SOREN KIERKEGAARDIt is impossible to exist without passion.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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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 sweetheart I have had.
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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
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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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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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It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.
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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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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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Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
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In the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart.
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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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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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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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