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’.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDTo have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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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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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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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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Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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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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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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I am convinced that God is love.
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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What labels me, negates me.
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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.”
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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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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.
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My standpoint is armed neutrality.
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