The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
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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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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The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.
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Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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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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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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I am convinced that God is love.
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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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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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It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.
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I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it — you will regret both.
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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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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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