“If one wishes to escape the risk of belief, it is as if one wanted to know with certainty that he can swim before going into the water.”
More from Søren Kierkegaard
“Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.”
“It is not the truth that needs people, but people who need the truth.”
“The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.”
“How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not…”