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
More Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Deep within every man there lies the dread of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked... As my prayer became more attentive and inward, I had less and less to say. I finally became... Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque... Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to... Christ was crucified because he would have nothing to do with the crowd (even though he addressed himself... Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Everyday, I walk myself into a state of well-being... The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend... Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority... The greatest danger to Christianity is, I contend, not heresies, not heterodoxies, not atheists, not profane secularism –... People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.
The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one...
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