Truth is Quotes by Soren Kierkegaard

8 Truth is quotes by Soren Kierkegaard

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Soren Kierkegaard’s eight short reflections on truth delve into existential nuance. Though brief, each line invites deeper contemplation of his philosophical depth.

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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…

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Any truth is only true up to a certain point. When one oversteps the mark, it becomes a non-truth.

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The truth is a trap: you cannot get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only…

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Truth is not introduced into the individual from without, but was within him all the time.

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In a mathematical proposition, for example, the objectivity is given, but therefore its truth is also an indifferent truth.

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The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that…

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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…

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Christ was crucified because he would have nothing to do with the crowd (even though he addressed himself to all). He did…

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Be that self which one truly is.

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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…

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