Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student.
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On the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart.
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Only the noble of heart are called to difficulty.
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To Dare is to risk losing your foothold for a moment, Not to Dare is to risk losing yourself.
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A possibility is a hint from God. One must follow it.
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Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.
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Faith is precisely the paradox that the single individual as the single individual is higher than the universal, is justified before it, not as inferior to it but superior - yet in such a way, please note, that it is the single individual who, after being subordinate as the single individual to the universal, now by means of the universal becomes the single individual who as the single individual is superior, that the single individual as the single individual stands in an absolute relation to the absolute.
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Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.
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The unhappy person is never present to themself because they always live in the past or the future.
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Which is more difficult, to awaken one who sleeps or to awaken one who, awake, dreams that he is awake?
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There is nothing everyone is so afraid of as being told how vastly much he is capable of. You are capable of - do you want to know? - you are capable of living in poverty; you are capable of standing almost any kind of maltreatment, abuse, etc. But you do not wish to know about it, isn't that so? You would be furious with him who told you so, and only call that person your friend who bolsters you in saying: 'No, this I cannot bear, this is beyond my strength, etc.
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I go fishing for a thousand monsters in the depths of my own self.
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The thing is to understand myself: the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die. That is what I now recognize as the most important thing.
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With respect to love we speak continually about perfection and the perfect person. With respect to love Christianity also speaks continually about perfection and the perfect person. Alas, but we men talk about finding the perfect person in order to love him. Christianity speaks about being the perfect person who limitlessly loves the person he sees.
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On the whole, the longing for solitude is a sign that there still is spirit in a person and is a measure of what spirit there is.
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It is better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed. The result may be the same, but you won't be. We always grow more through defeats than victories.
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Christianity demands the crucifixion of the intellect.
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Job endured everything - until his friends came to comfort him, then he grew impatient.
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Confidence is the present tense of hope.
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It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing.
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I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
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...he who always hopes for the best becomes old, deceived by life, and he who is always prepared for the worst becomes old prematurely; but he who has faith, retains eternal youth.
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Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay, but like a child waking from its sleep with a heavenly smile.
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A poet is an unhappy creature whose heart is tortured by deepest suffering but whose lips are so formed that when his sighs and cries stream out over them, their sound beomes like the sound of beautiful music . . . . And men flock about the poet saying, Sing for us soon again; that is to say, may new sufferings torture your soul, and may your lips continue to be formed as before.