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.
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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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 labels me, negates me.
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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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To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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It is impossible to exist without passion.
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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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Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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I am convinced that God is love.
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In the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart.
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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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Boredom is the root of all evil.
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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 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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The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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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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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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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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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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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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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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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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For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.”
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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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