Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

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• Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

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  Love, Life, Positive

  The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1844.

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• There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

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  Inspirational, Truth, Believe

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• It is better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed. The result may be the same, but you won't be. We always grow more through defeats than victories.

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  Victory, Trying, May

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• People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.

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  People, Despair, Levels

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• The most common form of despair is not being who you are.

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  Despair, Common, Spirituality

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• Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

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  Love, Life, Happiness

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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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  Freedom, Thinking, People

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• I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God

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  Voice, Silence, Silent

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• Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Everyday, I walk myself into a state of well-being & walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. But by sitting still, & the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill. Thus if one just keeps on walking, everything will be all right.

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  Sitting Still, Feelings, Everyday

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• Christ was crucified because he would have nothing to do with the crowd (even though he addressed himself to all). He did not want to form a party, an interest group, a mass movement, but wanted to be what he was, the truth, which is related to the single individual. Therefore everyone who will genuinely serve the truth is by that very fact a martyr. To win a crowd is no art; for that only untruth is needed, nonsense, and a little knowledge of human passions. But no witness to the truth dares to get involved with the crowd.

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  Art, Passion, Winning

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• Take a chance and you may lose. Take not a chance and you have lost already.

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  May, Chance, Lost

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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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  Change, God, Faith

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• The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.

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  Bible, Christian, Biblical

  "The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical". Book by Shane Claiborne, 2006.

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• The unhappy person is never present to themself because they always live in the past or the future.

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  Past, Unhappy Person, Persons

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• The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.

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  Death, Tyrants, Political

  Soren Kierkegaard (2015). “Papers and Journals”, p.370, Penguin UK

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• It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.

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  Understanding, Duty, Humans

  The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1847.

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• For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.

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  Risk, Greater

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• It's better to get lost in the passion than to lose the passion

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  Passion, Lost, Loses

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• Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth.

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  Crowds, Untruth

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• The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.

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  Eye, Self, Disbelievers

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• The minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion.

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  Stronger, Majority, Minorities

  "The Diary of Soren Kierkegaard" by Soren Kierkegaard, pt. 5, sct. 3, no 128, 1850.

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• Hope is passion for what is possible.

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  Hope, Passion

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• The best news the World has ever heard came from a graveyard - Christ is risen!

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  News, World, Christ

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• The question is not "To be or not to be," it is what we should be until we are not.

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  Should, Be Or Not To Be

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• To be a woman is something so strange, so confusing and so complicated that only a woman could put up with it.

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  Confusing, Strange, Complicated

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