Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDMy standpoint is armed neutrality.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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What labels me, negates me.
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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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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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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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Boredom is the root of all evil.
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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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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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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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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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My standpoint is armed neutrality.
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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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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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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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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 function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
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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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I am convinced that God is love.
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In the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart.
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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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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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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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Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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