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Soren Kierkegaard Inspirational Quotes (262)

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The reign of the tyrant ends with his death, and the reign of the martyr starts with it.
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No one is so terribly deceived as he who does not himself suspect it.
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Jurists say that a capital crime submerges all lesser crimes and so it is with faith. Its absurdity makes all petty difficultiesvanish.
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The God that can be named is not God.
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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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To love another person is to help them love God.
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People have an idea that the preacher is an actor on a stage and they are the critics, blaming or praising him. What they don't know is that they are the actors on the stage he (the preacher) is merely the prompter standing in the wings, reminding them of their lost lines.
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In the Christianity of Christendom the Cross has become something like the child’s hobby-horse and trumpet.
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At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
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In the deepest sense, the being in a state of sin is the sin, the particular sins are not the continuation of sin, they are expressions of its continuation.
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A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just how the world will come to an end: to the general applause of wits who believe it's a joke.
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Be that self which one truly is.
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Your own tactic is to train yourself in the art of becoming enigmatic to everybody. My young friend, suppose there was no one who troubld himself to guess your riddle--what joy, then, would you have in it?
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Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards.
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On the whole, the longing for solitude is a sign that there still is spirit in a person and is a measure of what spirit there is.
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Job endured everything - until his friends came to comfort him, then he grew impatient.
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The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.
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Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life.
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The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation that the relation relates itself to its own self the self is not the relation but that the relation relates itself to its own self.
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Comparison is the most dangerous acquaintance love can make.
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Only one human being recognized as one's neighbour is necessary in order to cure a man of self-love
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Christianity demands the crucifixion of the intellect.
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This is all that I've known for certain, that God is love. Even if I have been mistaken on this or that point: God is nevertheless love.
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A poet is not an apostle he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
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