People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDThe self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
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The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
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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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To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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Boredom is the root of all evil.
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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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The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased. If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice, I should reply, ‘Create silence’.
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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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In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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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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I am convinced that God is love.
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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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In the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart.
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