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Human Quotes by Soren Kierkegaard
- 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…
- This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were,…
- Spiritual superiority only sees the individual. But alas, ordinarily we human beings are sensual and, therefore, as soon as it is a gathering, the impression…
- It is the normal state of the human heart to try to build its identity around something besides God.
- ...knowing God is the condition for the sanctification of a human being by God's assistance and according to His intention. Wherever God is, there He…
- ... the more one needs God the more perfect he is. To need God is nothing to be ashamed of but is perfection itself. It…
- ...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…
- Do you know of any more overwhelming and humbling expression for God's condescension and extravagance towards us human beings than that He places Himself, so…
- Christ was crucified because he would have nothing to do with the crowd (even though he addressed himself to all). He did not want to…
- A human being is a spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is self? The self is a relation that relates…
- The commandment is that you shall love, but when you understand life and yourself, then it is as if you should not need to be…
- Only one human being recognized as one's neighbour is necessary in order to cure a man of self-love
- Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
- Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be…
- It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.
- People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an…
- For the sadness in legitimate humour consists in the fact that honestly and without deceit it reflects in a purely human way upon what it…
- How did I get into the world? Why was I not asked about it and why was I not informed of the rules and regulations…
- It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand...
- ...my soul always reverts to the Old Testament and to Shakespeare. There at least one feels that it's human beings talking. There people hate, people…
- Deep within every human being there still lives the anxiety over the possibility of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the…
- Men think that it is impossible for a human being to love his enemies, for enemies are hardly able to endure the sight of one…
- Knowledge of the truth I may perhaps have attained to; happiness certainly not. What shall I do? Accomplish something in the world, men tell me.…
- The human race in the course of time has taken the liberty of softening and softening Christianity until at last we have contrived to make…
- At different states in our lives, the signs of love may vary: dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but at the heart, the source is…
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- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- No one's really happy anyway, it's not human. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings… — Billie Joe Armstrong