And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDIt is impossible to exist without passion.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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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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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
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In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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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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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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Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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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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It is impossible to exist without passion.
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What labels me, negates me.
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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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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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