It is impossible to exist without passion.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDThe function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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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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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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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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My sorrow is my castle.
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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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Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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My standpoint is armed neutrality.
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Don’t forget to love yourself.
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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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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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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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What labels me, negates me.
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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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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.
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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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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 so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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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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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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To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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