What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
SOREN KIERKEGAARDThe 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.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.
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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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The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have.
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What labels me, negates me.
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Don’t forget to love yourself.
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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
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Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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My standpoint is armed neutrality.
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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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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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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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If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible.
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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 impossible to exist without passion.
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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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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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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
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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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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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I am convinced that God is love.
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What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?
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