Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
SOREN KIERKEGAARDOnce you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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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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My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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What labels me, negates me.
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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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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 task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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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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It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.
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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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My standpoint is armed neutrality.
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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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