People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDThe 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’.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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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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The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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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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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
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Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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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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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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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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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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