Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

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Soren Kierkegaard

Profession : Philosopher

Birth : May 5, 1813

Don't forget to love yourself.

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Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

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The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

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Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

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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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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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Once you label me you negate me.

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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

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What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.

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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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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

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To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.

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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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I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.

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The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.

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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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