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#1

“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

tags: faith, god, prayer

4623 likes

#2

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

tags: future, life, past, reflection, understanding

9105 likes

#3

“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

tags: life, reality

2189 likes

#4

“If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

tags: philosophy

577 likes

#5

“It is impossible to exist without passion”
― Søren Kierkegaard

276 likes

#6

“People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

tags: despair, happiness

92 likes

#7

“To be lost in spiritlessness is the most terrible thing of all.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

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#8

“Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin

tags: anxiety, freedom, possibility

73 likes

#9

“It's better to get lost in the passion than to lose the passion”
― Soren Kierkegäard

49 likes

#10

“Only the noble of heart are called to difficulty.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

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#11

“Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

tags: life, thoughts

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#12

“To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going on one's knees and thanking Him.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

tags: christianity, existentialism, faith, philosophy-of-religion, religion, subjectivity

7 likes

#13

“Just as gold is purified in the fire, so the soul is purified in sufferings.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

6 likes

#14

“He is mighty in the near world, but curses his might as purchased with his harmony of soul, his innocence, his inner peace in life’s embrace.”
― Peter Wessel Zapffe

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#15

“if a desert island is no tragedy, why is a deserted planet?”
― Peter Wessel Zapffe

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#16

“The human mind is like such antlers, which in all their magnificent glory, crush their bearer slowly to the ground.”
― Peter Wessel Zapffe, The Last Messiah

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#17

“What does it mean to be alive except to court disaster and suffering at every moment?”
― Thomas Ligotti, Teatro Grottesco

16 likes

#18

“We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves.”
― Martin Buber

tags: honesty, hope, insignt, recovery, redemption

144 likes

#19

“Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

tags: communication, confusion

1758 likes

#20

“Everyone who has to contend with unbelief should be advised that he ought not to take his own unbelief too seriously.”
― Karl Barth, Dogmatics in Outline

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#21

“For if God Himself became man, this man, what else can this mean but that He declared himself guilty of the contradiction against Himself”
― Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics, 14 Vols

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#22

“No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.”
― Hannah Arendt

119 likes

#23

“Evil thrives on apathy and cannot survive without it.”
― Hannah Arendt

tags: apathy, evil

51 likes

#24

“... Half of politics is "image-making", the other half is the art of making people believe the image”
― Hannah Arendt, Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics, Civil Disobedience, On Violence, and Thoughts on Politics and Revolution

24 likes

#25

“Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake.”
― Hannah Arendt, Between Past and Future

tags: courage, politics

24 likes

#26

“War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.”
― Hannah Arendt

13 likes

#27

“The only antidote to the irreversibility of history is the faculty of forgiveness.”
― Hannah Arendt

11 likes

#28

“Wisdom is a virtue of old age, and it seems to come only to those who, when young, were neither wise nor prudent.”
― Hannah Arendt, Men in Dark Times

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#29

“The most radical and the only secure form of possession is destruction, for only what we have destroyed is safely and forever ours.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

10 likes

#30

“A life spent entirely in public, in the presence of others, becomes, as we would say, shallow”
― Hannah Arendt

tags: life, public, shallow

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