Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDFor he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.”
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have.
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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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My standpoint is armed neutrality.
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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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To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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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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Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory.
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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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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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What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?
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There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
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Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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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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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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