Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts.
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I'm so misunderstood that people misunderstand me even when I tell them I'm misunderstood.
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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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There can be no faith without risk.
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We live as if we were unaware of our impending destruction.
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Preparation for becoming attentive to Christianity does not consist in reading many books ... but in fuller immersion in existence.
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Spirit is the third, yet in such a way that one can speak of a synthesis only when the spirit is posited.
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And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.
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In the end, therefore, money will be the one thing people will desire, which is moreover only representative, an abstraction. Nowadays a young man hardly envies anyone his gifts, his art, the love of a beautiful girl, or his fame; he only envies him his money. Give me money, he will say, and I am saved...He would die with nothing to reproach himself with, and under the impression that if only he had had the money he might really have lived and might even have achieved something great.
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Only one deception is possible in the infinite sense, self-deception.
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It is (to describe it figuratively) as if an author were to make a slip of the pen, and as if this clerical error became conscious of being such. Perhaps this was no error but in a far higher sense was an essential part of the whole exposition. It is, then, as if this clerical error were to revolt against the author, out of hatred for him, were to forbid him to correct it, and were to say, "No, I will not be erased, I will stand as a witness against thee, that thou art a very poor writer."
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Why I so much prefer autumn to spring is that in the autumn one looks at heaven--in the spring at the earth.
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Take it and return it: the kiss of love.
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If a man wants to set up as an innkeeper and he does not succeed, it is not comic. If, on the contrary, a girl asks to be allowed to set up as a prostitute and she fails, as sometimes happens, it is comic.
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If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin. Even though the result may gladden the whole world, that cannot help the hero; for he knows the result only when the whole thing is over, and that is not how he became a hero, but by virtue of the fact that he began.
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What a misfortune to be a woman! And yet, the worst misfortune is not to understand what a misfortune it is.
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The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.
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People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
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Love believes all things and yet is never deceived.
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Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
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It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.
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The wisdom of the years is confusing. Only the wisdom of eternity is edifying.
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Sin is: before God, or with the conception of God, in despair not to will to be oneself, or in despair to will to be oneself. Thus sin is intensified weakness or intensified defiance: sin is the intensification of despair. The emphasis is on before God, or with a conception of God; it is the conception of God that makes sin dialectically, ethically, and religiously what lawyers call 'aggravated' despair.
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Boredom rests upon the nothingness that winds its way through existence; its giddiness, like that which comes from gazing down into an infinite abyss, is infinite.