Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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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The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
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Boredom is the root of all evil.
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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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Don’t forget to love yourself.
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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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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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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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My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
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Hope is a passion for the possible.
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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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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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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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It is impossible to exist without passion.
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To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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