Tag: Soren Kierkegaard
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At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
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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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Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
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It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.
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If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.
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The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.
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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.
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Be that self which one truly is.
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The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.
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Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
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