Soren Kierkegaard

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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

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God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.

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Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

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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 function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

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Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.

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Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

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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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