To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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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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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It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.
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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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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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My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
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My standpoint is armed neutrality.
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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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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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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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I am convinced that God is love.
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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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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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What labels me, negates me.
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