Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.

Soren Kierkegaard

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• With the coaches, you don't want to hear everybody saying, 'Move over! Back up! Do this!' Let's find out what the players know.

  

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• I do have a family, and I do have friends, and so-called friends, and acquaintances, and many other people I see only around Christmas time. Maybe they could vouch for me. Maybe they could testify to my existence and save a part of me that thinks I'm no better than a bag of potato chips.

  

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• All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.

  

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• I don't worry about chemicals. There are enough chemicals entering my body through all the fizzy drinks I consume to worry if my lip balm is 100 per cent organic.

  

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• There ought to be a law against necessity.

  

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• I always have to just be myself. Anything else, I'm not happy, and it comes out musically.

  

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• Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.

  

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• I like radio because you can do an hour-long interview and then three days later have a finished piece.

  

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• The Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with me, and I asked them how they dared so roundly to assert, that God spoke to them; and whether they did not think at the time, that they would be misunderstood, & so be the cause of imposition. Isaiah answer'd, I saw no God, nor heard any, in a finite organical perception; but my senses discover'd the infinite in every thing, and as I was then persuaded, & remain confirm'd; that the voice of honest indignation is the voice of God, I cared not for consequences but wrote.

  

  William Blake
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• If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • God
  • Believe
  • Grasping