Best Quotes by Soren Kierkegaard (Top 10)
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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
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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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Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion" while truth again reverts to a new minority.
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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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Once you label me you negate me."
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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
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Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.
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Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
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More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself."
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Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
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To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.
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There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
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Purity of heart is to will one thing.
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Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do
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In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant" My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known no wonder, then, that I return the love.
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Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
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Spiritual superiority only sees the individual. But alas, ordinarily we human beings are sensual and, therefore, as soon as it is a gathering, the impression changes - we see something abstract, the crowd, and we become different. But in the eyes of God, the infinite spirit, all the millions that have lived and now live do not make a crowd, He only sees each individual.
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It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are. Human understanding has vulgarly occupied itself with nothing but understanding, but if it would only take the trouble to understand itself at the same time it would simply have to posit the paradox.
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Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
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Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.
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Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even the fullest existence as such is but a happy moment.
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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.
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Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.
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Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
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