

“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.”
― Provocations: Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard
― Provocations: Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard

“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”
― Pensées
― Pensées

“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
― Pensées
― Pensées

“Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.”
― Pensées
― Pensées
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