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Soren Kierkegaard Inspirational Quotes (262)

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Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here? What is this thing called the world?
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During the first period of our lives the greatest danger is not to take the risk. When once the risk has been taken, then the greatest danger is to risk too much. By not risking at first one turns aside and serves trivialities in the second case, by risking too much, one turns aside to the fantastic and perhaps to presumption.
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... all comparisons injure.
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All moral elevation consists first and foremost of being weaned from the momentary.
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Doubt is thought's despair despair is personality's doubt. . . . Doubt and despair . . . belong to completely different spheres different sides of the soul are set in motion. . . . Despair is an expression of the total personality, doubt only of thought.
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Dread is a womanish debility in which freedom swoons. Psychologically speaking, the fall into sin always occurs in impotence. But dread is at the same time the most egotistic thing.
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Theology sits rouged at the window and courts philosophy's favor, offering to sell her charms to it.
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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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Backwards understood be only can but, forwards lived be must life.
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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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Take it and return it: the kiss of love.
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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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It was not to save a nation that Abraham went to sacrifice Isaac, nor to appease angry gods... Then why does Abraham do it? For God's sake... He does it for the sake of God because God demands proof of his faith... He was not justified by being virtuous, but by being an individual submitted to God in faith.
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Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us - but not suckle us.
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...the person who surrenders absolutely to God, with no reservations, is absolutely safe. From this safe hiding-place he can see the devil , but the devil cannot see him.
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...knowing God is the condition for the sanctification of a human being by God's assistance and according to His intention. Wherever God is, there He is always creating... He wants to create a new human being. To need God is to become new. And to know God is the crucial thing.
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Destroy your primitivity, and you will most probably get along well in the world, maybe achieve great success--but Eternity will reject you. Follow up your primitivity, and you will be shipwrecked in temporality, but accepted by Eternity.
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It is intelligent to ask two questions: (1) Is it possible? (2) Can I do it?. But it is unintelligent to ask these questions: (1) Is it real? (2) Has my neighbor done it?
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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
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Silence is the demon's trap, and the more one is silenced, the more terrible the demon but silence is also the divinity's mutual understanding with the single individual.
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The most terrible fight is not when there is one opinion against another, the most terrible is when two men say the same thing -- and fight about the interpretation, and this interpretation involves a difference of quality.
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The truth is a trap: you cannot get it without it getting you you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you.
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If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.
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This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think.
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