Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDThe self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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I am convinced that God is love.
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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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Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth — look at the dying man’s struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.
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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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My standpoint is armed neutrality.
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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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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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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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What labels me, negates me.
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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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Hope is a passion for the possible.
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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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