The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
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 sweetheart I have had.
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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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The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have.
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Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
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Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth — look at the dying man’s struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.
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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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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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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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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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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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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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Don’t forget to love yourself.
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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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Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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In the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart.
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