My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDThere is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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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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It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.
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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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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
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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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Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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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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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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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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My standpoint is armed neutrality.
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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
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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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