For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.”
SOREN KIERKEGAARDListen 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.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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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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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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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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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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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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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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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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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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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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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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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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