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title: "36 Ifs Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard"
description: "36 Ifs quotes by Soren Kierkegaard. Plus more from Soren Kierkegaard and more Ifs sayings from other authors."
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> [If you think you understand, it isn't God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/if-you-think-you-understand-it-isn-t-god/)

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> [We live as if we were unaware of our impending destruction](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/we-live-as-if-we-were-unaware-of-our-impending-destruction/)

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> [If a man cannot forget, he will never amount to much.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/if-a-man-cannot-forget-he-will-never-amount-to-much/)

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> [This is all that I've known for certain, that God is love. Even if I have been mistaken on this or that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/this-is-all-that-i-ve-known-for-certain-that-god-is-love-even-if-i/)

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> [If the ethical - that is, social morality- is the highest ... then no categories are needed other than the Greek philosophical categories.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/if-the-ethical-that-is-social-morality-is-the-highest-then-no/)

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> [If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/if-i-could-prescribe-only-one-remedy-for-all-the-ills-of-the-modern/)

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> [It goes against the grain for me to do what so often happens, to speak inhumanly about the great as if a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/it-goes-against-the-grain-for-me-to-do-what-so-often-happens-to-speak/)

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> [Take a book, the poorest one written, but read it with the passion that it is the only book you will read.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/take-a-book-the-poorest-one-written-but-read-it-with-the-passion-that/)

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> [If I had a humble spirit in my service who, when I asked for a glass of water, brought me the world's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/if-i-had-a-humble-spirit-in-my-service-who-when-i-asked-for-a-glass/)

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> [In the life of the individual when love awakens it is older than everything else, because when it exists it seems as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/in-the-life-of-the-individual-when-love-awakens-it-is-older-than/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/the-truth-is-lived-before-it-is-understood-it-must-be-fought-for/)

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> [You wanted God's ideas about what was best for you to coincide with your ideas, but you also wanted him to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/you-wanted-god-s-ideas-about-what-was-best-for-you-to-coincide-with/)

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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/)

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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/)

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> [How could it occur to anyone to demonstrate that God exists unless one has already allowed Himself to ignore Him? A king's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/how-could-it-occur-to-anyone-to-demonstrate-that-god-exists-unless/)

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> [...it is presumptuous ridicule of God if someone thinks that only the person who desires great wealth chooses mammon. Alas, the person…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/it-is-presumptuous-ridicule-of-god-if-someone-thinks-that-only-the/)

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> [When you say 'Yes' or promise something, you can very easily deceive yourself and others also, as if you had already done…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/when-you-say-yes-or-promise-something-you-can-very-easily-deceive/)

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> [It is only all too easy to understand the requirements contained in God's Word ('Give all your goods to the poor.' 'If…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/it-is-only-all-too-easy-to-understand-the-requirements-contained-in/)

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> [If anyone proposes to believe, i.e., imagines himself to believe, because many good and upright people living here on the hill have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/if-anyone-proposes-to-believe-i-e-imagines-himself-to-believe-because/)

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> [Whoever thou art, whatever in other respects thy life may be, my friend, by ceasing to take part (if ordinarily thou doest)…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/whoever-thou-art-whatever-in-other-respects-thy-life-may-be-my-friend/)

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> [...it is not the obscure passages in Scripture that bind you but the ones you understand. With these you are to comply…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/it-is-not-the-obscure-passages-in-scripture-that-bind-you-but-the/)

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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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> [... the more one needs God the more perfect he is. To need God is nothing to be ashamed of but is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/the-more-one-needs-god-the-more-perfect-he-is-to-need-god-is-nothing/)

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> [In order to help another effectively, I must understand what he understands. If I do not know that, my greater understanding will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/in-order-to-help-another-effectively-i-must-understand-what-he/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/if-i-were-a-physician-and-if-i-were-allowed-to-prescribe-just-one/)

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> [And if something should be found, particularly in the first part of the dissertation, that one is generally not accustomed to come…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/and-if-something-should-be-found-particularly-in-the-first-part-of/)

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> [Learning to know anxiety is an adventure which every man has to affront if he would not go to perdition either by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/learning-to-know-anxiety-is-an-adventure-which-every-man-has-to/)

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> [It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/it-is-the-duty-of-the-human-understanding-to-understand-that-there/)

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> [The resolving of the ethical, is freedom; the negative resolution also has this, but the freedom, blank and bare, is as if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/the-resolving-of-the-ethical-is-freedom-the-negative-resolution-also/)

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> [What the philosophers have to say about reality is often as disappointing as a sign you see in a shop window, which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/what-the-philosophers-have-to-say-about-reality-is-often-as/)

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> [The commandment is that you shall love, but when you understand life and yourself, then it is as if you should not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/the-commandment-is-that-you-shall-love-but-when-you-understand-life/)

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

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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/)

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> [...a human being not only can choose but... he must choose... for in this way God retains His honor while at the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/a-human-being-not-only-can-choose-but-he-must-choose-for-in-this-way/)

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> [Do you know of any more overwhelming and humbling expression for God's condescension and extravagance towards us human beings than that He…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/do-you-know-of-any-more-overwhelming-and-humbling-expression-for-god/)

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> [Truth is not something you can appropriate easily and quickly. You certainly cannot sleep or dream yourself to the truth. No, you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/truth-is-not-something-you-can-appropriate-easily-and-quickly-you/)

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## Other authors on Ifs

## 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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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> [“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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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

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

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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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