Soren Kierkegaard Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
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“Christ has not only spoken to us by his life but has also spoken for us by his death.”
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“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
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“Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.”
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“Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.”
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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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“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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“Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.”
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“Hope is passion for what is possible.”
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“I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God”
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“The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.”
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“The question is not "To be or not to be," it is what we should be until we are not.”
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“Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.”
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“How did I get into the world? Why was I not asked about it and why was I not informed of the rules and regulations but just thrust into the ranks as if I had been bought by a peddling shanghaier of human beings? How did I get involved in this big enterprise called actuality? Why should I be involved? Isn't it a matter of choice? And if I am compelled to be involved, where is the manager—I have something to say about this. Is there no manager? To whom shall I make my complaint?”
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“Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay, but like a child waking from its sleep with a heavenly smile.”
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“The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.”
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“Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.”
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“Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.”
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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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“Most people rush after pleasure so fast that they rush right past it.”
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“Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us - but not suckle us.”
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“God creates everything out of nothing. And everything which God is to use, he first reduces to nothing”
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“Death cannot explain itself. The earnestness consists precisely in this, that the observer must explain it to himself.”
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“Every human being is tried this way in the active service of expectancy. Now comes the fulfillment and relieves him, but soon he is again placed on reconnaissance for expectancy; then he is again relieved, but as long as there is any future for him, he has not yet finished his service. And while human life goes on this way in very diverse expectancy, expecting very different things according to different times and occasions and in different frames of mind, all life is again one nightwatch of expectancy.”
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“It is very dangerous to go into eternity with possibilities which one has oneself prevented from becoming realities. A possibility is a hint from God. One must follow it.”
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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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“If I were a physician, and if I were allowed to prescribe just one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence. For even if the Word of God were proclaimed in the modern world, how could one hear it with so much noise? Therefore, create silence.”
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“The deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than himself.”
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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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“Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.”
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