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.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDI am convinced that God is love.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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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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The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
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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 is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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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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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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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 impossible to exist without passion.
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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.
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Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
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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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I am convinced that God is love.
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Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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