"It is the duty of the human understanding……" — Soren Kierkegaard
"It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand..."
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358 Quotes by Soren Kierkegaard
Soren Kierkegaard has 358 quotes on this site.
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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".
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Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully…
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Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his place so that you may understand…
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It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what…
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I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when…
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Most people live dejectedly in worldly joys or sorrows. They sit on the sidelines and do not join the dance.
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Learning to know anxiety is an adventure which every man has to affront if he would not go to perdition…
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The conclusions of passion are the only reliable ones.
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To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going down on one's knees…
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People generally think that it is the world, the environment, external relationships, which stand in one's way, in the way…
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Teach me, 0 God, not to torture myself, not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection, but…
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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.
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One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
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Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how…
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My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex…
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Training is needed in order to love properly; and to be able to give happiness and joy, you must practice…
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Agnostics cannot understand Christ for the same reason a thief find a policeman -they don't want to.
— John Hagee
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When you have attained the way of strategy there will be nothing that you cannot understand. You will see the…
— Miyamoto Musashi
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Sometimes when your child talks, your friends cannot understand what he says; but the mother understands very well. So if…
— Dwight L. Moody
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You say, "But He has not answered." He has, He is so near to you that His silence is the…
— Oswald Chambers
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Men are apt to idolize or fear that which they cannot understand, especially if it be a woman.
— Jean Toomer
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It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.
— Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
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