Soren Kierkegaard Quotes - Page 9

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• The melancholy have the best sense of the comic, the opulent often the best sense of the rustic, the dissolute often the best sense of the moral, and the doubter often the best sense of the religious.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Religious, Atheism, Doubters

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• This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Thinking, Want, Paradox

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• Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Good Life, Roots, Evil

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• It takes moral courage to grieve; it requires religious courage to rejoice.

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  Religious, Courage, Grieving

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• Men who not religious or artists are fools.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Religious, Artist, Men

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• Why I so much prefer autumn to spring is that in the autumn one looks at heaven--in the spring at the earth.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Spring, Autumn, Heaven

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• Any truth is only true up to a certain point. When one oversteps the mark, it becomes a non-truth.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Truth, Truth Is, Mark

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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.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  God, Believe, Grasping

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• With respect to physical existence, one needs little, and to the degree that one needs less, the more perfect one is.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Perfect One, Degrees, Needs

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• No time of life is so beautiful as the early days of love, when with every meeting, every glance, one fetches something new home to rejoice over.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Love, Life, Beautiful

  Soren Kierkegaard (1946). “Either/or”

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• This is all that I've known for certain, that God is love. Even if I have been mistaken on this or that point: God is nevertheless love.

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  Love, Certain, Mistaken

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• I stick my finger into existence.. it smells of nothing. Where am I? Who am I? What is this thing called the world? What does this word mean?

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Mean, Smell, Doe

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• Don't you know that a midnight hour comes when everyone has to take off his mask? Do you think life always lets itself be trifled with? Do you think you can sneak off a little before midnight to escape this?

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Thinking, Midnight, Littles

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• ...why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Past, Remember, Made

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• It is impossible to exist without passion

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Passion, Impossible

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• The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Life Lesson, Men, Numbers

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• Pain reconciles one to existence. Infinite resignation is that shirt in the old fable. The thread is spun with tears, bleached by tears, the shirt sewn in tears, but then it also gives better protection than iron. The secret in life is that everyone must sew it for himself.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Pain, Iron, Giving

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• 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

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• Take a book, the poorest one written, but read it with the passion that it is the only book you will read. Ultimately, you will read everything out of it, that is, as much as there was in yourself, and you could never get more out of reading, even if you read the best of books.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Book, Reading, Passion

  "Stages on Life's Way". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, p. 363-364, 1845.

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• Only when it is a duty to love, only then is love eternally and happily secured against despair.

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  Despair, Duty, Secured

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• Christendom has done away with Christianity without being quite aware of it.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Done, Christianity, Awareness

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• Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Birthday, Dream, Time

  Soren Kierkegaard (1946). “Either/or”

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• Without risk, faith is an impossibility.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Risk, Trying, Impossibility

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• The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Men, Ideas, Differences

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• Seek first God's Kingdom, that is, become like the lilies and the birds, become perfectly silent - then shall the rest be added unto you.

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  Bird, Lilies, Kingdoms

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