Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

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• When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, "It is talking to me, and about me".
• Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully that he literally chokes with…
• Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his place so that you may understand . . . what he…
• It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are. Human understanding…
• I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep, for that would…
• Most people live dejectedly in worldly joys or sorrows. They sit on the sidelines and do not join the dance.
• Learning to know anxiety is an adventure which every man has to affront if he would not go to perdition either by not having known…
• The conclusions of passion are the only reliable ones.
• To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going down on one's knees and thanking him.
• People generally think that it is the world, the environment, external relationships, which stand in one's way, in the way of ones' good fortune... and…
• Teach me, 0 God, not to torture myself, not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection, but rather teach me to breathe…
• What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.
• And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself,…
• Maturity consists in the discovery that there comes a critical moment where everything is reversed, after which the point becomes to understand more and more…
• There is something almost cruel about the Christian's being placed in a world which in every way wants to pressure him to do the opposite…
• God does not think; he creates. He does not exist; he is eternal.
• Who is also aware of the tremendous risk involved in faith - when he nevertheless makes the leap of faith - this [is] subjectivity ...…
• Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us - but not suckle us.
• Where there are two people, there is untruth.
• At one time my only wish was to be a police official. It seemed to me to be an occupation for my sleepless intriguing mind.…

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