Soren Kierkegaard Quotes - Page 8

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• May new sufferings torment your soul.

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  Soul, Suffering, May

  Soren Kierkegaard (1946). “Either/or”

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• A good decision is our will to do everything we can within our power. It means to serve God with all we've got, be it little or much. Every person can do that.

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  Christian, Mean, Decision

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• ...the greatest thing each person can do is to give himself to God utterly and unconditionally - weaknesses, fears, and all. For God loves obedience more than good intentions or second-best offerings, which are all too often made under the guise of weakness.

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  Christian, Offering, Giving

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• I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.

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  Regret, Philosophy, Two

  "Either/Or". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, February 20, 1843.

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• The question of immortality is of its nature not a scholarly question. It is a question welling up from the interior which the subject must put to itself as it becomes conscious of itself.

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  Immortality, Conscious, Scholarly

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• People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.

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  Travel, Stars, Fall

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• There is nothing everyone is so afraid of as being told how vastly much he is capable of. You are capable of - do you want to know? - you are capable of living in poverty; you are capable of standing almost any kind of maltreatment, abuse, etc. But you do not wish to know about it, isn't that so? You would be furious with him who told you so, and only call that person your friend who bolsters you in saying: 'No, this I cannot bear, this is beyond my strength, etc.

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  Abuse, Wish, Bears

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• Job endured everything - until his friends came to comfort him, then he grew impatient.

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  Friendship, Jobs, Comfort

  "Journals". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, Harper (1849), 1959.

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• Most people rush after pleasure so fast that they rush right past it.

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  Past, People, Pleasure

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• Faith is the highest passion in a man.

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  Passion, Men, Highest

  "Fear and Trembling". Book by Søren Kierkegaard, Epilogue, 1843.

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• Freedom's possibility is not the ability to choose the good or the evil. The possibility is to be able.

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  Evil, Able, Possibility

  Soren Kierkegaard, Alastair Hannay (2014). “The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Oriented Deliberation in View of the Dogmatic Problem of Hereditary Sin”, p.60, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts.

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  Walking Away, Hiking, Entrepreneur

  Soren Kierkegaard's letter to Henriette Kierkegaard (1847), as quoted in Soren Kierkegaard "Letters and Documents" (translated by Henrik Rosenmeier), www.huffingtonpost.com. 1978.

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• Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic - if it is pulled out I shall die.

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  Heart, Long, Childhood

  Soren Kierkegaard's journal entry, 1847.

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

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  God, Prayer, Doe

  "Is There a Yoga of the Heart?" by Roger S. Gottlieb, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 15, 2012.

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• If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!

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  Life, Success, Wine

  Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Either/ Or”

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• That is the road we all have to take - over the Bridge of Sight into eternity.

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  Journey, Sight, Bridges

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• Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.

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  Love, Sweet, Doe

  Soren Kierkegaard (2017). “Philosophical Fragments”, p.20, Jovian Press

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• There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow

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  Sorrow, Comfort

  Soren Kierkegaard (2013). “Fear and Trembling”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• It is easy to see, though it scarcely needs to be pointed out, since it is involved in the fact that Reason is set aside, that faith is not a form of knowledge; for all knowledge is either a knowledge of the eternal, excluding the temporal and historical as indifferent, or it is pure historical knowledge. No knowledge can have for its object the absurdity that the eternal is the historical.

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  Faith, Knowledge, Historical

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• Truth is not introduced into the individual from without, but was within him all the time.

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  Truth Is, Individual

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• There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.

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  Hate, Evil, Suffering

  "Phaedo" by Plato,

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• I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night.

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  Night, Silence, Confidant

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• On the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart

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  Heart, Blushing, Cheeks

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• What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?

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  Laughter, What If, Tears

  Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Either/ Or”

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• What a misfortune to be a woman! And yet, the worst misfortune is not to understand what a misfortune it is.

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  Worst, Misfortunes

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