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.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDNow, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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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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Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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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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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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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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I am convinced that God is love.
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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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Hope is a passion for the possible.
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Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth — look at the dying man’s struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.
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The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
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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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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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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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