For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.”
SOREN KIERKEGAARDHope is a passion for the possible.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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The 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.
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Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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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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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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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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In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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What labels me, negates me.
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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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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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Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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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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