What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDIt 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.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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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 impossible to exist without passion.
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Hope is a passion for the possible.
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In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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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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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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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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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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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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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.
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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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