The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever. Soren Kierkegaard More Quotes by Soren Kierkegaard More Quotes From Soren Kierkegaard God has given each of us our "marching order." Our purpose here on Earth is to find those orders and carry them out. Those orders acknowledge our special gifts. Soren Kierkegaard purposespecialorder God does not think; he creates. He does not exist; he is eternal. Soren Kierkegaard atheismfearthinking One must not think slightingly of the paradoxical…for the paradox is the source of the thinker’s passion, and the thinker without a paradox is like a lover without feeling: a paltry mediocrity. Soren Kierkegaard passionfeelingsthinking Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. Soren Kierkegaard prayergoddoe Teach me, 0 God, not to torture myself, not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection, but rather teach me to breathe deeply in faith. Soren Kierkegaard stiflingbreathereflection Faith is the highest passion in a man. Soren Kierkegaard highestpassionmen Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself. Soren Kierkegaard good-liferootsevil If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe. Soren Kierkegaard graspinggodbelieve Any truth is only true up to a certain point. When one oversteps the mark, it becomes a non-truth. Soren Kierkegaard truth-ismarktruth Death induces the sensual person to say: Let us eat and drink, because tomorrow we shall die - but this is sensuality's cowardly lust for life, that contemptible order of things where one lives in order to eat and drink instead of eating and drinking in order to live. Soren Kierkegaard lustdrinkingorder Pain reconciles one to existence. Infinite resignation is that shirt in the old fable. The thread is spun with tears, bleached by tears, the shirt sewn in tears, but then it also gives better protection than iron. The secret in life is that everyone must sew it for himself. Soren Kierkegaard ironpaingiving The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins. Soren Kierkegaard tyrantspoliticaldeath Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than "The Individual." Soren Kierkegaard inscriptionsindividualitytombstone I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved. Soren Kierkegaard chess-gamefrustrationgames Most people rush after pleasure so fast that they rush right past it. Soren Kierkegaard pleasurepeoplepast The crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die. Soren Kierkegaard existentialismwillingideas Dread is a womanish debility in which freedom swoons. Psychologically speaking, the fall into sin always occurs in impotence. But dread is at the same time the most egotistic thing. Soren Kierkegaard dreadsinfall Only the noble of heart are called to difficulty. Soren Kierkegaard difficultynobleheart The minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion. Soren Kierkegaard majorityminoritiesstronger I do not care for anything. I do not care to ride, for the exercise is too violent. I do not care to walk, walking is too strenuous. I do not care to lie down, for I should either have to remain lying, and I do not care to do that, or I should have to get up again, and I do not care to do that either. Summa summarum: I do not care at all. Soren Kierkegaard should-haveexerciselying
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