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.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDOnce you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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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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Hope is a passion for the possible.
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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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What labels me, negates me.
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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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My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
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My sorrow is my castle.
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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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It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.
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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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In the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart.
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It is impossible to exist without passion.
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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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