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.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDMany of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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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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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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It is impossible to exist without passion.
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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’.
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Boredom is the root of all evil.
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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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Hope is a passion for the possible.
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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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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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My standpoint is armed neutrality.
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Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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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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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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Don’t forget to love yourself.
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