Søren Kierkegaard quotes - page 2

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself. (Søren Kierkegaard)
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself. View quote
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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are. View quote
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Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment. View quote
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Don't forget to love yourself. View quote
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Purity of heart is to will one thing. View quote
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People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me. View quote
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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. View quote
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If the ethical – that is, social morality – is the highest ... then no categories are needed other than the Greek philosophical categories. View quote
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Out of love, God becomes man. He says: "See, here is what it is to be a human being." View quote
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There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys; they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked out the sum for themselves. (Søren Kierkegaard)
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. View quote
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I have just now come from a party where I was its life and soul; witticisms streamed from my lips, everyone laughed and admired me, but I went away - yes, the dash should be as long as the radius of the earth's orbit ----------- and wanted to shoot myself. View quote
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This fact, that the opposite of sin is by no means virtue, has been overlooked. The latter is partly a pagan view, which is content with a merely human standard, and which for that very reason does not know what sin is, that all sin is before God. No, the opposite of sin is faith. View quote
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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair. View quote
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Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him, for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low, could still be saved the bitterest enemy and also he who was your friend could again be your friend love that has grown cold can kindle. View quote
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The question is asked in ignorance, by one who does not even know what can have led him to ask it. View quote
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To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going on one's knees and thanking Him. View quote
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Irony limits, finitizes, and circumscribes and thereby yields truth, actuality, content; it disciplines and punishes and thereby yields balance and consistency. View quote
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Every human being is tried this way in the active service of expectancy. Now comes the fulfillment and relieves him, but soon he is again placed on reconnaissance for expectancy; then he is again relieved, but as long as there is any future for him, he has not yet finished his service. And while human life goes on this way in very diverse expectancy, expecting very different things according to different times and occasions and in different frames of mind, all life is again one nightwatch of expectancy. View quote
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Death cannot explain itself. The earnestness consists precisely in this, that the observer must explain it to himself. (Søren Kierkegaard)
It will be easy for us once we receive the ball of yarn from Ariadne (love) and then go through all the mazes of the labyrinth (life) and kill the monster. But how many are there who plunge into life (the labyrinth) without taking that precaution? View quote
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It is perfectly true, as the philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards. View quote
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Job endured everything - until his friends came to comfort him, then he grew impatient. View quote
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Irony is a qualification of subjectivity. View quote
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