It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDIt is impossible to exist without passion.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?
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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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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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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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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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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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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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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.
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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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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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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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I am convinced that God is love.
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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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It is impossible to exist without passion.
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