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title: "27 Doe Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard"
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> [The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/the-presence-of-irony-does-not-necessarily-mean-that-the-earnestness/)

[Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/)

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> [A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/a-no-does-not-hide-anything-but-a-yes-very-easily-becomes-a-deception/)

[Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/)

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> [God does not think; he creates. He does not exist; he is eternal.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/god-does-not-think-he-creates-he-does-not-exist-he-is-eternal/)

[Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/)

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> [To be a teacher does not mean simply to affirm that such a thing is so, or to deliver a lecture, etc.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/to-be-a-teacher-does-not-mean-simply-to-affirm-that-such-a-thing-is/)

[Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/)

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> [No one is so terribly deceived as he who does not himself suspect it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/no-one-is-so-terribly-deceived-as-he-who-does-not-himself-suspect-it/)

[Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/)

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> [The question is asked in ignorance, by one who does not even know what can have led him to ask it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/the-question-is-asked-in-ignorance-by-one-who-does-not-even-know-what/)

[Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/)

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> [Just as in the great moment of resignation one does not mediate but chooses, now the task is to gain proficiency in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/just-as-in-the-great-moment-of-resignation-one-does-not-mediate-but/)

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> [I have only one friend, and that is echo. Why is it my friend? Because I love my sorrow, and echo does…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/i-have-only-one-friend-and-that-is-echo-why-is-it-my-friend-because-i/)

[Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/)

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> [As the arrow, loosed from the bow by the hand of the practiced archer, does not rest till it has reached the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/as-the-arrow-loosed-from-the-bow-by-the-hand-of-the-practiced-archer/)

[Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/)

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> [ The idea of demonstrating that this unknown something \[God\] exists, could scarcely suggest itself to Reason. For if God does not exist… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/the-idea-of-demonstrating-that-this-unknown-something-god-exists/)

[Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/)

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> [O Luther, you had 95 theses . . . The matter is far more terrible-there is only one thesis. The Christianity of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/o-luther-you-had-95-theses-the-matter-is-far-more-terrible-there-is/)

[Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/)

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> [I am convinced that God is love, this thought has for me a primitive lyrical validity. When it is present to me,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/i-am-convinced-that-god-is-love-this-thought-has-for-me-a-primitive/)

[Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/)

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> [He who does not know how to encircle a girl so that she loses sight of everything he does not want her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/he-who-does-not-know-how-to-encircle-a-girl-so-that-she-loses-sight/)

[Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/)

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> [I stick my finger into existence.. it smells of nothing. Where am I? Who am I? What is this thing called the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/i-stick-my-finger-into-existence-it-smells-of-nothing-where-am-i-who/)

[Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/)

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> [No grand inquisitor has in readiness such terrible tortures as has anxiety and no spy knows how to attack more artfully the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/no-grand-inquisitor-has-in-readiness-such-terrible-tortures-as-has/)

[Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/it-was-not-to-save-a-nation-that-abraham-went-to-sacrifice-isaac-nor/)

[Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/)

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> [To despair over one's sins indicates that sin has become or wants to be internally consistent. It wants nothing to do with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/to-despair-over-one-s-sins-indicates-that-sin-has-become-or-wants-to/)

[Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/)

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> [Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He who does…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/irony-is-a-disciplinarian-feared-only-by-those-who-do-not-know-it-but-2/)

[Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/)

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> [Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully that he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/nowadays-not-even-a-suicide-kills-himself-in-desperation-before/)

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> [Philosophy is perfectly right in saying that life must be understood backward. But then one forgets the other clause - that it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/philosophy-is-perfectly-right-in-saying-that-life-must-be-understood/)

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> [...Christ did not appoint professors, but followers. If Christianity ... is not reduplicated in the life of the person expounding it, then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/christ-did-not-appoint-professors-but-followers-if-christianity-is/)

[Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/)

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> [This fact, that the opposite of sin is by no means virtue, has been overlooked. The latter is partly a pagan view,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/this-fact-that-the-opposite-of-sin-is-by-no-means-virtue-has-been/)

[Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/)

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> [The individual (no matter how well-meaning he might be, no matter how much strength he might have, if only he would use…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/the-individual-no-matter-how-well-meaning-he-might-be-no-matter-how/)

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> [Preparation for becoming attentive to Christianity does not consist in reading many books ... but in fuller immersion in existence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/preparation-for-becoming-attentive-to-christianity-does-not-consist/)

[Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/)

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> [If a man wants to set up as an innkeeper and he does not succeed, it is not comic. If, on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/if-a-man-wants-to-set-up-as-an-innkeeper-and-he-does-not-succeed-it/)

[Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/)

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> [Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/christianity-does-not-oppose-debauchery-and-uncontrollable-passions/)

[Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/)

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> [As my prayer became more attentive and inward, I had less and less to say. I finally became completely silent... This is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/as-my-prayer-became-more-attentive-and-inward-i-had-less-and-less-to/)

[Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/)

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## Other authors on Doe

## More by Soren Kierkegaard

> [Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this homey, civil…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/christianity-does-not-oppose-debauchery-and-uncontrollable-passions/)

[Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/)

> [Christians remind me of schoolboys who want to look up the answers to their math problems in the back of the book rather than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/christians-remind-me-of-schoolboys-who-want-to-look-up-the-answers-to/)

[Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/)

> [People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/people-commonly-travel-the-world-over-to-see-rivers-and-mountains-new/)

[Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/)

> [“A strange thing happened to me in my dream. I was rapt into the Seventh Heaven. There sat all the gods assembled. As a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/a-strange-thing-happened-to-me-in-my-dream-i-was-rapt-into-the/)

[Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/)

> [That which is truly human no generation learns from the one before it. No generation learns from another how to love. No generation has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/that-which-is-truly-human-no-generation-learns-from-the-one-before-it/)

[Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/)

> [A man may perform astonishing feats and comprehend a vast amount of knowledge, and yet have no understanding of himself. But suffering directs a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/a-man-may-perform-astonishing-feats-and-comprehend-a-vast-amount-of/)

[Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/)

> [Be that self which one truly is.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/be-that-self-which-one-truly-is/)

[Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/)

> [I go fishing for a thousand monsters in the depths of my own self](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/i-go-fishing-for-a-thousand-monsters-in-the-depths-of-my-own-self/)

[Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/)

> [In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant… My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known —…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/in-addition-to-my-other-numerous-acquaintances-i-have-one-more/)

[Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/)

> [The greatest danger to Christianity is, I contend, not heresies, not heterodoxies, not atheists, not profane secularism - no, but the kind of orthodoxy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/the-greatest-danger-to-christianity-is-i-contend-not-heresies-not/)

[Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/)

> [Future is everything that past has forgotten.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/future-is-everything-that-past-has-forgotten/)

[Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/)

> [Without risk, faith is an impossibility.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/without-risk-faith-is-an-impossibility/)

[Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/)

> [I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/i-have-only-one-confidant-and-that-is-the-silence-of-night/)

[Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/)

> [A road well begun is the battle half won. The important thing is to make a beginning and get under way.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/a-road-well-begun-is-the-battle-half-won-the-important-thing-is-to/)

[Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/)

> [I have, I believe, the courage to doubt everything; I have, I believe, the courage to fight against everything; but I do not have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/i-have-i-believe-the-courage-to-doubt-everything-i-have-i-believe-the/)

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                        "text": "To despair over one's sins indicates that sin has become or wants to be internally consistent. It wants nothing to do with the good, does not want to be so weak as to listen occasionally to other talk. No, it insists on listening only to itself, on having dealings only with itself; it closes itself up within itself, indeed, locks itself inside one more inclosure, and protects itself against every attack or pursuit by the good by despairing over sin.",
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