The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDTo have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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My standpoint is armed neutrality.
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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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The most common form of despair is not being who 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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People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
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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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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
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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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Boredom is the root of all evil.
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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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What labels me, negates me.
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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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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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In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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