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title: "27 Persons Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard"
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> [The person who praises God is on the tracks of justice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/the-person-who-praises-god-is-on-the-tracks-of-justice/)

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

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> [The more a person limits himself, the more resourceful he becomes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/the-more-a-person-limits-himself-the-more-resourceful-he-becomes/)

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

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> [To love another person is to help them love God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/to-love-another-person-is-to-help-them-love-god/)

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

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> [The more people who believe something, the more apt it is to be wrong. The person who's right often has to stand…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/the-more-people-who-believe-something-the-more-apt-it-is-to-be-wrong/)

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

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> [On the whole, the longing for solitude is a sign that there still is spirit in a person and is a measure…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/on-the-whole-the-longing-for-solitude-is-a-sign-that-there-still-is/)

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

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> [The unhappy person is never present to themself because they always live in the past or the future.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/the-unhappy-person-is-never-present-to-themself-because-they-always/)

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

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> [Irony is the cultivation of the spirit and therefore follows next after immediacy; then comes the ethicist, then the humourist, then the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/irony-is-the-cultivation-of-the-spirit-and-therefore-follows-next/)

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

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> [Affliction is able to drown out every earthly voice. . . but the voice of eternity within a person it cannot drown.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/affliction-is-able-to-drown-out-every-earthly-voice-but-the-voice-of/)

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

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> [Choose to be who you are. . . The individual who would become a person must at some point take over his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/choose-to-be-who-you-are-the-individual-who-would-become-a-person/)

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

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> [When you open the door which you shut in order to pray to God, the first person you meet as you go…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/when-you-open-the-door-which-you-shut-in-order-to-pray-to-god-the/)

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

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> [This is the miracle of life: that each person who heeds him or herself knows what no scientist can ever know: who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/this-is-the-miracle-of-life-that-each-person-who-heeds-him-or-herself/)

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

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> [Death induces the sensual person to say: Let us eat and drink, because tomorrow we shall die - but this is sensuality's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/death-induces-the-sensual-person-to-say-let-us-eat-and-drink-because/)

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

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> [Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him, for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/never-cease-loving-a-person-and-never-give-up-hope-for-him-for-even/)

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

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> [God is present in the moment of choice, not in order to watch but in order to be chosen. Therefore, each person…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/god-is-present-in-the-moment-of-choice-not-in-order-to-watch-but-in/)

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

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> [...the greatest thing each person can do is to give himself to God utterly and unconditionally - weaknesses, fears, and all. For…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/the-greatest-thing-each-person-can-do-is-to-give-himself-to-god/)

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

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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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> [Truth has always had many loud proclaimers, but the question is whether a person will in the deepest sense acknowledge the truth,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/truth-has-always-had-many-loud-proclaimers-but-the-question-is/)

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

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> [It doesn't occur to me at this moment to say more; another time, perhaps tomorrow, I may have more to say, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/it-doesn-t-occur-to-me-at-this-moment-to-say-more-another-time/)

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

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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/)

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

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> [In order to learn true humility (I use this expression to describe the state of mind under discussion), it is good for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/in-order-to-learn-true-humility-i-use-this-expression-to-describe-the/)

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

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> [And then the spirit brings hope, hope in the strictest Christian sense, hope which is hoping against hope. For an immediate hope…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/and-then-the-spirit-brings-hope-hope-in-the-strictest-christian-sense/)

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

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> [One is not unpopular because he uses peculiar expressions; that just so happens; such terms become a fad, and by and by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/one-is-not-unpopular-because-he-uses-peculiar-expressions-that-just/)

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

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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/)

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

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> [To defend something is always to discredit it. Let a man have a warehouse full of gold, let him be willing to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/to-defend-something-is-always-to-discredit-it-let-a-man-have-a-2/)

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

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> [Compared with the person who is conscious of his despair, the despairing individual who is ignorant of his despair is simply a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/compared-with-the-person-who-is-conscious-of-his-despair-the/)

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

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/the-person-who-surrenders-absolutely-to-god-with-no-reservations-is/)

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

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> [A good decision is our will to do everything we can within our power. It means to serve God with all we've…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/a-good-decision-is-our-will-to-do-everything-we-can-within-our-power/)

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

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## Other authors on Persons

## 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/)

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

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                        "text": "And then the spirit brings hope, hope in the strictest Christian sense, hope which is hoping against hope. For an immediate hope exists in every person; it may be more powerfully alive in one person than in another; but in death every hope of this kind dies and turns into hopelessness. Into this night of hopelessness (it is death that we are describing) comes the life-giving spirit and brings hope, the hope of eternity. It is against hope, for there was no longer any hope for that merely natural hope; this hope is therefore a hope contrary to hope.",
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                        "text": "One is not unpopular because he uses peculiar expressions; that just so happens; such terms become a fad, and by and by everybody, down to the last simpleton, uses them. But a person who follows through an idea in his mind is, and always will be, essentially unpopular. That is why Socrates was unpopular, though he did not use any special terms, for to grasp and hold his 'ignorance' requires greater vital effort than understanding the whole of Hegel's philosophy.",
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                        "text": "...a human being not only can choose but... he must choose... for in this way God retains His honor while at the same time has a fatherly concern for humankind. Though God has lowered Himself to being that which can be chosen, yet each person must on his part choose. God is not mocked. Therefore the matter stands thus: If a person avoids choosing, this is the same as the presumption of choosing the world.",
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                        "text": "To defend something is always to discredit it. Let a man have a warehouse full of gold, let him be willing to give away a ducat to every one of the poor - but let him also be stupid enough to begin this charitable undertaking of his with a defense in which he offers three good reasons in justification; and it will almost come to the point of people finding it doubtful whether indeed he is doing something good. But now for Christianity. Yes, the person who defends that has never believed in it.",
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                        "text": "Compared with the person who is conscious of his despair, the despairing individual who is ignorant of his despair is simply a negativity further away from the truth and deliverance. . . . Yet ignorance is so far from breaking the despair or changing despair to nondespairing that it can in fact be the most dangerous form of despair. . . . An individual is furthest from being conscious of himself as spirit when he is ignorant of being in despair. But precisely this-not to be conscious of oneself as spirit-is despair, which is spiritlessness. . . .",
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