Want Quotes by Soren Kierkegaard

14 Want quotes by Soren Kierkegaard

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Kierkegaard’s fourteen thoughts on wanting probe the tension between longing and authentic living. The excerpts offer a concise philosophical entry point.

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If you want to be loathsome to God, just run with the herd.

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Talent warms-up the given (as they say in cookery) and makes it apparent; genius brings something new. But our time lets talent…

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There is something almost cruel about the Christian's being placed in a world which in every way wants to pressure him to…

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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…

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You should therefore say: alone in one's boat, alone with one's care, alone with one's despair, which one is craven enough to…

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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…

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When all combine in every way to make everything easier, people will want difficulty. I conceived it as my task to make…

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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…

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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…

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...knowing God is the condition for the sanctification of a human being by God's assistance and according to His intention. Wherever God…

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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…

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An individual in despair despairs over something. . . . In despairing over something, he really despair[s] over himself, and now he…

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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…

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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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