Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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In the life of the individual when love awakens it is older than everything else, because when it exists it seems as if it has existed for a long time; it presupposes itself back into the distant past until all searching ends in the inexplicable origin.
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This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think.
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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.
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I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.
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The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that.
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Faith is a marvel, and yet no human being is excluded from it; for that in which all human life is united is passion, and faith is a passion.
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If I had a humble spirit in my service who, when I asked for a glass of water, brought me the world's costliest wines blended in a chalice, I should dismiss him, in order to teach him that my pleasure consists, not in what I enjoy, but in having my own way.
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The great trick with a woman is to get rid of her while she think's she's rid of you.
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Purity of heart is to will one thing.
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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection.
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It was not to save a nation that Abraham went to sacrifice Isaac, nor to appease angry gods... Then why does Abraham do it? For God's sake... He does it for the sake of God because God demands proof of his faith... He was not justified by being virtuous, but by being an individual submitted to God in faith.
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If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence.
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My scholarly expectation is then that I may succeed in becoming clever in philosophy in spite of my stupidity.
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The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
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It is impossible to exist without passion.
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Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy — to be a man who is brisk about his food and his work. Therefore, whenever I see a fly settling, in the decisive moment, on the nose of such a person of affairs; or if he is spattered with mud from a carriage which drives past him in still greater haste; or the drawbridge opens up before him; or a tile falls down and knocks him dead, then I laugh heartily.
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Human justice is very prolix, and yet at times quite mediocre; divine justice is more concise and needs no information from the prosecution, no legal papers, no interrogation of witnesses, but makes the guilty one his own informer and helps him with eternity's memory.
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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep, for that would be a pity, for sleeping is the highest accomplishment of genius.
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All essential knowledge relates to existence, or only such knowledge as has an essential relationship to existence is essential knowledge.
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It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.
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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
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To love another person is to help them love God.