Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDTo have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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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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The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.
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It is impossible to exist without passion.
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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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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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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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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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My sorrow is my castle.
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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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The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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