My sorrow is my castle.
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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Hope is a passion for the possible.
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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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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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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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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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My standpoint is armed neutrality.
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Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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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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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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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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It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.
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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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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.
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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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