Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

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• It is better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed. The result may be the same, but you won't be. We always grow more through defeats than victories.

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  Victory, Trying, May

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• Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

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  Love, Life, Positive

  The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1844.

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• There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

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  Inspirational, Truth, Believe

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• People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.

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  People, Despair, Levels

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• The most common form of despair is not being who you are.

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  Despair, Common, Spirituality

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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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  Freedom, Thinking, People

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• I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God

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  Voice, Silence, Silent

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• Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

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  Love, Life, Happiness

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• Take a chance and you may lose. Take not a chance and you have lost already.

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  May, Chance, Lost

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• Christ was crucified because he would have nothing to do with the crowd (even though he addressed himself to all). He did not want to form a party, an interest group, a mass movement, but wanted to be what he was, the truth, which is related to the single individual. Therefore everyone who will genuinely serve the truth is by that very fact a martyr. To win a crowd is no art; for that only untruth is needed, nonsense, and a little knowledge of human passions. But no witness to the truth dares to get involved with the crowd.

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  Art, Passion, Winning

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• Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Everyday, I walk myself into a state of well-being & walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. But by sitting still, & the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill. Thus if one just keeps on walking, everything will be all right.

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  Sitting Still, Feelings, Everyday

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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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  Change, God, Faith

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• The unhappy person is never present to themself because they always live in the past or the future.

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  Past, Unhappy Person, Persons

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• 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.

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  Bible, Christian, Biblical

  "The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical". Book by Shane Claiborne, 2006.

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• The question is not "To be or not to be," it is what we should be until we are not.

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  Should, Be Or Not To Be

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• It is not where we breathe, but where we Love, that we live.

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  Breathe

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• Do it or don't do it - you will regret both.

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  Regret, You Will Regret

  Soren Kierkegaard (2004). “Either/Or: A Fragment of Life”, p.409, Penguin UK

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• It is not the path which is the difficulty; rather, it is the difficulty which is the path.

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  Path, Difficulty

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• Hope is passion for what is possible.

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  Hope, Passion

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• In order to help another effectively, I must understand what he understands. If I do not know that, my greater understanding will be of no help to him... instruction begins when you put yourself in his place so that you may understand what he understands and in the way he understands it.

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  Learning, Order, Understanding

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• Who am I? How did I come into the world? Why was I not consulted?

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  Questions And Answers, World

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• The minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion.

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  Stronger, Majority, Minorities

  "The Diary of Soren Kierkegaard" by Soren Kierkegaard, pt. 5, sct. 3, no 128, 1850.

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• The best news the World has ever heard came from a graveyard - Christ is risen!

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  News, World, Christ

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• The thing that cowardice fears most is decision

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  Decision, Cowardice

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• Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

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  Change, Expression, Being Sad

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