It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDTruth 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.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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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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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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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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My sorrow is my castle.
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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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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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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 perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.
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What labels me, negates me.
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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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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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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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The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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