The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDLife can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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My standpoint is armed neutrality.
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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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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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It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.
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People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
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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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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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I am convinced that God is love.
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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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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
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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 impossible to exist without passion.
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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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