Soren Kierkegaard Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• God is present in the moment of choice, not in order to watch but in order to be chosen. Therefore, each person must choose. Terrible is the battle, in a person's innermost being, between God and the world. The crowning risk involved lies in the possession of choice.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Lying, Order

• A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Happy, Lying, Reality

• Deep within every man there lies the dread of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the tremendous household of millions and millions.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Lying, Men, World

• At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Lying, Enmity, Indifference

• I do not care for anything. I do not care to ride, for the exercise is too violent. I do not care to walk, walking is too strenuous. I do not care to lie down, for I should either have to remain lying, and I do not care to do that, or I should have to get up again, and I do not care to do that either. Summa summarum: I do not care at all.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Lying, Exercise, Should Have

  Soren Kierkegaard (1946). “Either/or”

• It is human self-renunciation when a man denies himself and the world opens up to him. But it is Christian self-renunciation when he denies himself and, because the world precisely for this shuts itself up to him, he must as one thrust out by the world seek God's confidence. The double-danger lies precisely in meeting opposition there where he had expected to find support, and he has to turn about twice; whereas the merely human self-resignation turns once.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Lying, Men

  "Works of Love". Book by Søren Kierkegaard, 1847.

• The meaning lies in the appropriation.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Lying, Appropriation

  "Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, 1845.

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