"There are men who are wanting in the……" — Soren Kierkegaard
"There are men who are wanting in the comparative, they as a rule are the most interesting."
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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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More Comparative Quotes
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one of 76 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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God bless my father, but he always spoke in this continental, literary accent, probably because he was a professor of…
— Nicolas Cage
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Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate.
— George Santayana
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From a comparative perspective, the United States is unusual if not unique in the lack of restraints on freedom of…
— Noam Chomsky
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All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The growth of our knowledge is the result of a process closely resembling what Darwin called 'natural selection'; that is,…
— Karl Popper
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I concur with you strictly in your opinion of the comparative merits of atheism and demonism, and really see nothing…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The whole aim of comparative anatomy is to discover what structures are homologous.
— Unknown Author
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Doubtless many can recall certain books which have greatly influenced their lives, and in my own case one stands out…
— Unknown Author
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Poverty, therefore, was comparative. One measured it by a sliding scale. One was always poor, in terms of those who…
— Margaret Drabble
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It is true that many creative people fail to make mature personal relationships, and some are extremely isolated. It is…
— Anthony Storr
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