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Soren Kierkegaard Inspirational Quotes (262)

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There can be no faith without risk.
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To be lost in spiritlessness is the most terrible thing of all.
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Where unclarity resides, there is temptation, and there it proves only too easily the stronger. Wherever there is ambiguity, wherever there is wavering, there is disobedience down at the bottom.
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The truth is lived before it is understood. It must be fought for, tested, and appropriated. Truth is the way... Anyone will easily understand it if he just gives himself to it.
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I am so fed up and joyless that not only have I nothing to fill my soul, I cannot even conceive of anything that could possibly satisfy it - alas, not even the bliss of heaven.
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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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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
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For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.
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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.
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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.
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But doubt is wily and cunning and never, as it is sometimes said to be, loud or defiant. It is unassuming and sly, not bold or assertive - and the more unassuming, the more dangerous.
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Truth is not introduced into the individual from without, but was within him all the time.
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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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The person who praises God is on the tracks of justice.
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If you think you understand, it isn't God.
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Love believes all things and yet is never deceived.
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The paradox in Christian truth is invariably due to the fact that it is the truth that exists for God. The standard of measure and the end is superhuman and there is only one relationship possible: faith.
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O Luther, you had 95 theses . . . The matter is far more terrible-there is only one thesis. The Christianity of the New Testament does not exist at all. Here there is nothing to reform.
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It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.
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Nothing is as heady as the wine of possibility
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My scholarly expectation is then that I may succeed in becoming clever in philosophy in spite of my stupidity.
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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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