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.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDHope is a passion for the possible.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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Boredom is the root of all evil.
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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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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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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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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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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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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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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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I am convinced that God is love.
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It is impossible to exist without passion.
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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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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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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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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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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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