Soren Kierkegaard Quotes - Page 6

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• Faith is holding onto uncertainties with passionate conviction.

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  Faith, Religious, Passionate

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• ...he who always hopes for the best becomes old, deceived by life, and he who is always prepared for the worst becomes old prematurely; but he who has faith, retains eternal youth.

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  Have Faith, Youth, Hoping For The Best

  Soren Kierkegaard (2005). “Fear and Trembling”, p.21, Penguin UK

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• People generally think that it is the world, the environment, external relationships, which stand in one's way, in the way of ones' good fortune... and at bottom it is always man himself that stands in his own way.

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  Honesty, Men, Thinking

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• Men think that it is impossible for a human being to love his enemies, for enemies are hardly able to endure the sight of one another. Well, then, shut your eyes--and your enemy looks just like your neighbor.

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  Eye, Men, Thinking

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• Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.

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  Hiking, Entrepreneur, Desire

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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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  Love, Heartbreak, Cheating

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• People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.

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  Inspirational, People, Understanding

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• It is a frightful satire and an epigram on the modern age that the only use it knows for solitude is to make it a punishment, a jail sentence.

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  Punishment, Jail, Solitude

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• Everyone looks the same to me in a photograph: stupid.

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  Stupid, Looks, Photograph

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• Man is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation which relates itself to itself.

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  Men, Self, Two

  "The Sickness Unto Death". Book by Søren Kierkegaard, "A. That Despair is the Sickness unto Death", 1849.

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• You live life looking forward, you understand life looking backward.

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  Live Life, Looking Forward, Looking Back

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• For love is exultant when it unites equals, but it is triumphant when it makes that which was unequal equal in love.

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  Love Is, Equal, Triumphant

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• It is a wonderful thing to see a first-rate philosopher at prayer. Tough-minded thinking and tenderhearted reverence are friends, not enemies. We have for too long separated the head from the heart, and we are the lesser for it. We love God with the mind and we love God with the heart. In reality, we are descending with the mind into the heart and there standing before God in ceaseless wonder and endless praise. As the mind and the heart work in concert, a kind of loving rationality pervades all we say and do. This brings unity to us and glory to God.

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  Prayer, Heart, Reality

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• . . .the larger the crowd, the more probable that that which it praises is folly, and the more improbable that it is truth; and the most improbable of all that it is any eternal truth.

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  Truth, Crowds, Praise

  Soren Kierkegaard (2013). “Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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• During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.

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  Inspirational, Men, Heartache

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• The Bible is God's love letter to us

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  Letters, Love Letter, God's Love

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• The human race in the course of time has taken the liberty of softening and softening Christianity until at last we have contrived to make it exactly the opposite of what it is in the New Testament.

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  Taken, Race, Opposites

  Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Attack Upon 'Christendom'”

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• The great trick with a woman is to get rid of her while she think's she's rid of you.

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  Women, Thinking, Tricks

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• No one is so terribly deceived as he who does not himself suspect it.

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  Doe, Deceived, Suspects

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• Men who not religious or artists are fools.

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  Religious, Artist, Men

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• Hope is a passion for the possible.

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  Passion

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• The truth must essentially be regarded as in conflict with this world; the world has never been so good, and will never become so good that the majority will desire the truth.

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  Truth, Desire, Majority

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• A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.

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  Deception, Promise, Doe

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• To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student.

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  Teacher, Students, Learners

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• Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

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  Adversity, Common, Conflict

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