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Kierkegaard Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard

A road well begun is the battle half won. The important thing is to make a beginning and
get under way. — Soren Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard Quotes By Kierkegaard Research Centre

People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. — Kierkegaard Research Centre

Kierkegaard Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard

I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night. — Soren Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard

My tactics were, by God's aid, to employ every means to make it clear what the requirement of Christianity truly is. — Soren Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard

Socrates proved the immortality of the soul from the fact that the sickness of the soul (sin) does not consume it as sickness of the body consumes the body. So also we can demonstrate the eternal in man from the fact that despair cannot consume his self, that this precisely is the torment of contradiction in despair. If there were nothing eternal in a man, he could not despair; but if despair could consume his self, there would still be no despair. — Soren Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard

The slaves of paltriness, the frogs in life's swamp, will naturally cry out, "Such a love is foolishness. The rich brewer's widow is a match fully as good and respectable." Let them croak. — Soren Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard

But now how can an Apostle prove that he has authority? If he could prove it physically, then he would not be an Apostle. He has no other proof than his own statement. That has to be so; for otherwise the believer's relationship to him would be direct instead of being paradoxical. — Soren Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard

The individual (no matter how well-meaning he might be, no matter how much strength he might have, if only he would use it) does not have the passion to rip himself away from either the coils of Reflection or the seductive ambiguities of Reflection; nor do the surroundings and times have any events or passions, but rather provide a negative setting of a habit of reflection, which plays with some illusory project only to betray him in the end with a way out: it shows him that the most clever thing to do is nothing at all. — Soren Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard

Once you are born in this world you're old enough to die. — Soren Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard

I believe that there is a longing in my soul that searches the whole world. — Soren Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard

our Lord satisfied the stomach before satisfying the eye, but the imagination acts in the reverse fashion — Soren Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard

Job endured everything - until his friends came to comfort him, then he grew impatient. — Soren Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard

A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception. — Soren Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard

To love another person is to help them love God. — Soren Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard

For it is not what happens to me that makes me great, but it is what I do. — Soren Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard

The commandment is that you shall love, but when you understand life and yourself, then it is as if you should not need to be commanded, because to love human beings is still the only thing worth living for; without this life you really do not live. — Soren Kierkegaard

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A crowd in its very concept is the untruth, by reason of the fact that it renders the individual completely impenitent and irresponsible, or at least weakens his sense of responsibility by reducing it to a fraction. — Soren Kierkegaard

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One must not think slightingly of the paradoxical ... for the paradox is the source of the thinker's passion, and the thinker without a paradox is like a lover without feeling: a paltry mediocrity. — Soren Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard

What I complain of is that life is not like a novel where there are hard-hearted fathers, and goblins and trolls to fight with, enchanted princesses to free. What are all such enemies taken together compared to the pallid, bloodless, glutinous nocturnal shapes with which I fight and to which I myself give life and being. — Soren Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard

God creates everything out of nothing. And everything which God is to use, he first reduces to nothing — Soren Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard

You wanted God's ideas about what was best for you to coincide with your ideas, but you also wanted him to be the almighty Creator of heaven and earth so that he could properly fulfill your
wish. And yet, if he were to share your ideas, he would cease to be the almighty Father. — Soren Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard Quotes By Fred B. Craddock

Boredom is a form of evil; perhaps one of Kierkegaard's characters was more correct when he said, "Boredom is the root of all evil." Boredom is a preview of death, if not itself a form of death, and when trapped in prolonged boredom, even the most saintly of us will hope for, pray for, or even engineer relief, however demonic. — Fred B. Craddock

Kierkegaard Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard

No one may pride himself at being more than an individual, and no one despondently think that he is not an individual ... — Soren Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard Quotes By George Pattison

But, inevitably, as he [Kierkegaard] approaches what wemight call his Christocentric climax many readers drop off. Many scholars just leave that part of his authorship alone. — George Pattison

Kierkegaard Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard

If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe. If I wish to preserve myself in faith I must constantly be intent upon holding fast the objective uncertainty so as to remain out upon the deep, over seventy thousand fathoms of water, still preserving my faith. — Soren Kierkegaard

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Love believes all things and yet is never deceived. — Soren Kierkegaard

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Is it not possible that my activity as an objective observer of nature will weaken my strength as a human being? — Soren Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard

People have an idea that the preacher is an actor on a stage and they are the critics, blaming or praising him. What they don't know is that they are the actors on the stage; he (the preacher) is merely the prompter standing in the wings, reminding them of their lost lines. — Soren Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard

A man may perform astonishing feats and comprehend a vast amount of knowledge, and yet have no understanding of himself. But suffering directs a man to look within. If it succeeds, then there, within him, is the beginning of his learning. — Soren Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard

To be a teacher does not mean simply to affirm that such a thing is so, or to deliver a lecture, etc. — Soren Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting. — Soren Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard

A human being is a spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is self? The self is a relation that relates itself to itself or is the relation's relating itself to itself in the relation. — Soren Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard

I have, I believe, the courage to doubt everything; I have, I believe, the courage to fight against everything; but I do not have the courage to acknowledge anything, the courage to possess, to own anything. — Soren Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard

To defend something is always to discredit it. Let a man have a warehouse full of gold, let him be willing to give away a ducat to every one of the poor - but let him also be stupid enough to begin this charitable undertaking of his with a defence in which he offers three good reasons in justification; and it will almost come to the point of people finding it doubtful whether indeed he is doing something good. But now for Christianity. Yes, the person who defends that has never believed in it. If he does believe, then the enthusiasm of faith is not a defence, no, it is the assault and the victory; a believer is a victor. — Soren Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard

There are men who are wanting in the comparative, they as a rule are the most interesting. — Soren Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard

Boredom is the root of all evil. It is very curious that boredom, which itself has such a calm and sedate nature, can have such a capacity to initiate motion. The effect that boredom brings about is absolutely magical, but this effect is one not of attraction but of repulsion. — Soren Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard

The thinker without a paradox is like a lover without a feeling: a paltry mediocrity. — Soren Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard

Faith is the highest passion in a man. — Soren Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard

I must find a truth that is true for me. — Soren Kierkegaard

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She was a riddle, who mysteriously possessed her own solution, a secret, and what are all diplomats' secrets compared with this, an enigma, and what in all the world is so beautiful as the word that solves it? — Soren Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard

Only the person who is essentially capable of remaining silent is capable of speaking essentially. — Soren Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard

To be lost in spiritlessness is the most terrible thing of all. — Soren Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard

It is a question of discovering a truth which is truth for me, of finding the idea for which I am willing to live and die. — Soren Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard

The conclusions of passion are the only reliable ones. — Soren Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard

In eternity it will be asked whether you may not have damaged a good thing, in order that you also might judge with them that did not know how to judge, but who possessed the crowd's strength, which in the temporal sense is significant, but to which eternity is wholly indifferent. — Soren Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard

if god loves me, he is my mortal enemy — Soren Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard

The tedium vitae so constant in antiquity was due to the fact that the outstanding individual was what others could not be; the inspiration of modern times will be that any man who finds himself, religiously speaking, has only achieved what every one can achieve. — Soren Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard

It occurs to me that artists go forward by going backward, something which I have nothing against intrinsically when it is a reproduced retreat - as is the case with the better artists. — Soren Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard

Men are not on such intimate terms with the sublime that they really can believe in it — Soren Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard

Without risk, faith is an impossibility. — Soren Kierkegaard

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Prayer is listening. — Soren Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard

The question is not "To be or not to be," it is what we should be until we are not. — Soren Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard

Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than "The Individual." — Soren Kierkegaard

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There is one thing that all Satan's cunning and all the snares of temptation cannot take by surprise - an undivided will. — Soren Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard Quotes By George Pattison

Perhaps unsurprisingly, there's a paradox here! Kierkegaard's own indirect communication proposes that we start with the experience of those who don't believe and meet them on their own ground. His success in doing this is evidenced by the fact that, at least for some periods of the 20th century, aspects of his work became a major focus for radical thinkers of various kinds, including the non-religious and, interestingly, a significant number of Jewish thinkers (Buber, Rosenzweig, Taubes, and others). — George Pattison

Kierkegaard Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard

No one is so terribly deceived as he who does not himself suspect it. — Soren Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard

Marry, and you will regret it; don't marry, you will also regret it; marry or don't marry, you will regret it either way. Laugh at the world's foolishness, you will regret it; weep over it, you will regret that too; laugh at the world's foolishness or weep over it, you will regret both. Believe a woman, you will regret it; believe her not, you will also regret it ... Hang yourself, you will regret it; do not hang yourself, and you will regret that too; hang yourself or don't hang yourself, you'll regret it either way; whether you hang yourself or do not hang yourself, you will regret both. This, gentlemen, is the essence of all philosophy. — Soren Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. — Soren Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard

I have walked myself into my best thoughts and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it ... but by sitting still, and the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill. — Soren Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard

As the arrow, loosed from the bow by the hand of the practiced archer, does not rest till it has reached the mark, so men pass from God to God. He is the mark for which they have been created, and they do not rest till they find their rest in him. — Soren Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard

A man's personality is matured only when he appropriates the truth, whether it is spoken by Balaam's ass or a sniggering wag or an apostle or an angel. — Soren Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard

And no Grand Inquisitor has in readiness such terrible tortures as has anxiety, and no spy knows how to attack more artfully the man he suspects, choosing the instant when he is weakest, nor knows how to lay traps where he will be caught and ensnared, as anxiety knows how, and no sharp-witted judge knows how to interrogate, to examine the accused as anxiety does, which never lets him escape, neither by diversion nor by noise, neither at work nor at play, neither by day nor at night. — Soren Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard

Is this the same teaching, when Christ says to the rich young man, "Sell all that thou hast, and give it to the poor"; and when the priest says, "Sell all that thou hast and...give it to me"? — Soren Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard

Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment. — Soren Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard

The greatest thing each person can do is to give himself to God utterly and unconditionally - weaknesses, fears, and all. For God loves obedience more than good intentions or second-best offerings, which are all too often made under the guise of weakness. — Soren Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard

It is presumptuous ridicule of God if someone thinks that only the person who desires great wealth chooses mammon. Alas, the person who insists on having a penny without God, wants to have a penny all for himself. He thereby chooses mammon. A penny is enough, the choice is made, he has chosen mammon; that it is little makes not the slightest difference. The love of God is hatred of the world and love of the world hatred of God. — Soren Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard

A superstitious belief which embraces an error keeps the possibility open that the truth may come to arouse it; but when the truth is there, and the superstitious mode of apprehending it transforms it into a lie, no saving awakening is possible. — Soren Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard

If you marry, you will regret it; if you do not marry, you will also regret it; if you marry or do not marry, you will regret both; Laugh at the world's follies, you will regret it, weep over them, you will also regret that; laugh at the world's follies or weep over them, you will regret both; whether you laugh at the world's follies or weep over them, you will regret both. Believe a woman, you will regret it, believe her not, you will also regret that; believe a woman or believe her not, you will regret both; whether you believe a woman or believe her not, you will regret both. Hang yourself, you will regret it; do not hang yourself, and you will also regret that; hang yourself or do not hang yourself, you will regret both; whether you hang yourself or do not hang yourself, you will regret both. This, gentlemen, is the sum and substance of all philosophy. — Soren Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard

Christendom has done away with Christianity without being quite aware of it. — Soren Kierkegaard

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The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased. If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice, I should reply, 'Create silence'. — Soren Kierkegaard

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The most terrible fight is not when there is one opinion against another, the most terrible is when two men say the same thing
and fight about the interpretation, and this interpretation involves a difference of quality. — Soren Kierkegaard

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The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived. — Soren Kierkegaard

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So to be sick unto death is not to be able to die
yet not as though there were hope of life; no, the hopelessness in this case is that even the last hope, death, is not available. When death is the greatest danger, one hopes for life; but when one becomes acquainted with an even more dreadful danger, one hopes for death. So when the danger is so great that death has become one's hope, despair is the disconsolateness of not being able to die. — Soren Kierkegaard

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It's better to get lost in the passion than to lose the passion — Soren Kierkegaard

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Just as a physician might say that there very likely is not one single living human being who is completely healthy, so anyone who really knows mankind might say that there is not one single living human being who does not despair a little, who does not secretly harbor an unrest, an inner strife, a disharmony, an anxiety about an unknown something or a something he does not even dare try to know, an anxiety about some possibility in existence or an anxiety about himself, so that, just as the physician speaks of going around with an illness in the body, he walks around with a sickness, carries around a sickness of the spirit that signals its presence at rare intervals in and through an anxiety he cannot explain. — Soren Kierkegaard

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The question is asked in ignorance, by one who does not even know what can have led him to ask it. — Soren Kierkegaard

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What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music ... And people flock around the poet and say: 'Sing again soon' - that is, 'May new sufferings torment your soul but your lips be fashioned as before, for the cry would only frighten us, but the music, that is blissful. — Soren Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard

They were not unfortunate girls who, as outcasts or in the belief that they were cast out by society, grieved wholesomely and intensely and, once in a while at times when the heart was too full, ventilated it in hate or forgiveness. No visible change took place in them; they lived in the accustomed context, were respected as always, and yet they were changed, almost unaccountably to themselves and incomprehensibly to others. Their lives were not cracked or broken, as others' were, but were bent into themselves; lost to others, they futilely sought to find themselves. — Soren Kierkegaard

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The discrepancy is that the ethical self should be found immanently in the despair, that the individual won himself by persisting in the despair. True, he has used something within the category of freedom, choosing himself, which seem to remove the difficulty, one that presumably has not struck many, since philosophically doubting everything and then finding the true beginning goes one, two, three. But that does not help. In despairing, I use myself to despair, and therefore I can indeed despair of everything by myself. But if I do this, I cannot come back by myself. It is in this moment of decision that the individual needs divine assistance, whereas it is quite correct that in order to be at this point one must first have understood the existence-relation between the aesthetic and the ethical; that is to say, by being there in passion and inwardness, one surely becomes aware of the religious - and of the leap. — Soren Kierkegaard

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As a genius St. Paul cannot be compared with either Plato or Shakespeare, as a coiner of beautiful similes he comes pretty low down in the scale, as a stylist his name is quite obscure--and as an upholsterer: well, I frankly admit I have no idea how to place him. — Soren Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard Quotes By Eleanor Roosevelt

Anxiety," Kierkegaard said, "is the dizziness of freedom. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Kierkegaard Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard

As the sea, when it lies calm and deeply transparent, yearns for heaven, so may the pure heart, when it is calm and deeply transparent, yearn for the Good. — Soren Kierkegaard

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Only the lower natures forget themselves and become something new. Thus the butterfly has entirely forgotten that it was a caterpillar, perhaps it may in turn so entirely forget it was a butterfly that is becomes a fish. — Soren Kierkegaard

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During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. — Soren Kierkegaard

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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey. — Soren Kierkegaard

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If a pastor's activity in the church is merely a once-a-week attempt to tow the congregation's cargo ship a little closer to eternity, the whole thing comes to nothing. A human life, unlike a cargo ship, cannot lie in the same place until the next Sunday. — Soren Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard

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. — Soren Kierkegaard

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It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite. — Soren Kierkegaard

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Satan's despair is absolute because Satan, as pure spirit, is pure consciousness, and for Satan (and all men in his predicament) every increase in consciousness is an increase in despair. — Soren Kierkegaard

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In The Knights Aristophanes gave us a picture of the final state of corruption in which the vulgar rabble ends when
just as in Tibet they worship the Dalai Lama's excrement
they contemplate their own scum in its representatives; and that, in a democracy, is a degree of corruption comparable to auctioning the crown in a monarchy. — Soren Kierkegaard

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When I get up in the morning I go straight back to bed again. I feel best in the evening, the moment I dowse the candle, pull the eiderdown over my head. I raise myself up once more, look about the room with an indescribable peace of mind, and then it's goodnight, down under the eiderdown. — Soren Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard

The crowd, in fact, is composed of individuals; it must therefore be in every man's power to become what he is, an individual. From becoming an individual no one, no one at all, is excluded, except he who excludes himself by becoming a crowd. To become a crowd, to collect a crowd about one, is on the contrary to affirm the distinctions of human life. The most well-meaning person who talks about these distinctions can easily offend an individual. But then it is not the crowd which possesses power, influence, repute, and mastery over men, but it is the invidious distinctions of human life which despotically ignore the single individual as the weak and impotent, which in a temporal and worldly interest ignore the eternal truth- the single individual. — Soren Kierkegaard

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I am courteous enough to assume that everyone in this so aesthetically voluptuous age, so potent and aroused that conception occurs as easily as with the partridge which, Aristotle says, needs only to hear the voice of the cock or its flight overhead - to assume that at the mere sound of the word 'concealment' everyone can easily shake a dozen romances and comedies from his sleeve. — Soren Kierkegaard

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I stick my finger in existence - it smells of nothing. Where am I? Who am I? How came I here? What is this thing called the world? What does this world mean? Who is it that has lured me into the world? Why was I not consulted, why not made acquainted with its manners and customs instead of throwing me into the ranks, as if I had been bought by a kidnapper, a dealer in souls? How did I obtain an interest in this big enterprise they call reality? Why should I have an interest in it? Is it not a voluntary concern? And if I am to be compelled to take part in it, where is the director? I should like to make a remark to him. Is there no director? Whither shall I turn with my complaint? — Soren Kierkegaard

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Those who dream must be awakened, and the deeper the people are who slumber, or the deeper they slumber, the more important it is that they be awakened, and the more powerfully must they be awakened. — Soren Kierkegaard

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I am convinced that God is love, this thought has for me a primitive lyrical validity. When it is present to me, I am unspeakably blissful, when it is absent, I long for it more vehemently than does the lover for his object. — Soren Kierkegaard

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The thing that cowardice fears most is decision — Soren Kierkegaard

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An increased power of reflection like an increased knowledge only adds to man's affliction, and above all it is certain that for the individual as for the generation no task is more difficult than to escape from the temptations of reflection, simply because they are so dialectical and the result of one clever discovery may give the whole question a new turn, because at any moment reflection is capable of explaining everything quite differently and allowing one some way of escape; because at the last moment of a reflective decision reflection is capable of changing everything
after one has made far greater exertions than are necessary to get a man of character into the midst of things. — Soren Kierkegaard

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Purity of Heart Is to Will One Thing — Soren Kierkegaard

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The best news the World has ever heard came from a graveyard - Christ is risen! — Soren Kierkegaard