Soren Kierkegaard Quotes - Page 8

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• Without risk, faith is an impossibility.

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  Risk, Trying, Impossibility

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• It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

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  Relationship, Aquariums, Dating

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• Truth is not introduced into the individual from without, but was within him all the time.

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  Truth Is, Individual

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• Nothing is as heady as the wine of possibility

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  Wine, Possibility

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• What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?

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  Laughter, What If, Tears

  Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Either/ Or”

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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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• Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection

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  Reflection, Leap Of Faith, Leap

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• Where there are two people, there is untruth.

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  Spiritual, Two, People

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• There is nothing everyone is so afraid of as being told how vastly much he is capable of. You are capable of - do you want to know? - you are capable of living in poverty; you are capable of standing almost any kind of maltreatment, abuse, etc. But you do not wish to know about it, isn't that so? You would be furious with him who told you so, and only call that person your friend who bolsters you in saying: 'No, this I cannot bear, this is beyond my strength, etc.

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  Abuse, Wish, Bears

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• The question of immortality is of its nature not a scholarly question. It is a question welling up from the interior which the subject must put to itself as it becomes conscious of itself.

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  Immortality, Conscious, Scholarly

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• I go fishing for a thousand monsters in the depths of my own self

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  Self, Fishing, Monsters

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• Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic - if it is pulled out I shall die.

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  Heart, Long, Childhood

  Soren Kierkegaard's journal entry, 1847.

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• People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.

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  Travel, Stars, Fall

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• ...it is not the obscure passages in Scripture that bind you but the ones you understand. With these you are to comply at once. If you understood only one passage in all of Scripture, well, then you must do that first of all. It will be this passage God asks you about. Do not first sit down and ponder the obscure passages. God's Word is given in order that you shall act according to it, not that you gain expertise in interpreting it.

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  Christian, Order, Gains

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• To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self.... And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one's self.

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  Life, Motivational, Adventure

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• The crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.

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  Ideas, Existentialism, Willing

  The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, (Journals 1A), August 1, 1835.

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• The person who praises God is on the tracks of justice.

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  Track, Justice, Thought Provoking

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• Job endured everything - until his friends came to comfort him, then he grew impatient.

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  Friendship, Jobs, Comfort

  "Journals". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, Harper (1849), 1959.

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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.

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  Birthday, Dream, Time

  Soren Kierkegaard (1946). “Either/or”

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• It is easy to see, though it scarcely needs to be pointed out, since it is involved in the fact that Reason is set aside, that faith is not a form of knowledge; for all knowledge is either a knowledge of the eternal, excluding the temporal and historical as indifferent, or it is pure historical knowledge. No knowledge can have for its object the absurdity that the eternal is the historical.

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  Faith, Knowledge, Historical

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• Maturity consists in the discovery that there comes a critical moment where everything is reversed, after which the point becomes to understand more and more that there is something which cannot be understood.

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  Maturity, Discovery, Critical Moments

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• The more men believe an idea to be true the greater the likelihood that the idea is mistaken. Those who are right usually stand alone.

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  Believe, Men, Ideas

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

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  Past, Remember, Made

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• Faith is the highest passion in a man.

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  Passion, Men, Highest

  "Fear and Trembling". Book by Søren Kierkegaard, Epilogue, 1843.

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• I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

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  Frustration, Games, Chess Game

  Soren Kierkegaard (1946). “Either/or”

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