Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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Soren Kierkegaard Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Preparation for becoming attentive to Christianity does not consist in reading many books ... but in fuller immersion in existence.
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.
Death cannot explain itself. The earnestness consists precisely in this, that the observer must explain it to himself.
My tactics were, by God's aid, to employ every means to make it clear what the requirement of Christianity truly is.
If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.
And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.
For I have trained myself and am training myself always to be able to dance lightly in the service of thought
To be a teacher does not mean simply to affirm that such a thing is so, or to deliver a lecture, etc.
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
The less support an idea has,the more fervently it must be believed in, so that a totally preposterous idea requires unflinching faith.
The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology.
If he is not supposed to be that, then he is a hypocrite, and the higher he climbs on this path, the more dreadful a hypocrite he is.
With respect to physical existence, one needs little, and to the degree that one needs less, the more perfect one is.
To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.
He who loved himself became great in himself, and he who loved others became great through his devotion, but he who loved God became greater than all.
It is the normal state of the human heart to try to build its identity around something besides God.
Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.
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.
In the eyes of God, the infinite spirit, all the millions that have lived and now live do not make a crowd. He only sees each individual
Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every
generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
To the frivolous Christianity is certainly not glad tidings, for it wishes first of all to make them serious.
When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, "It is talking to me, and about me".
It is a frightful satire and an epigram on the modern age that the only use it knows for solitude is to make it a punishment, a jail sentence.
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.
Which is more difficult, to awaken one who sleeps or to awaken one who, awake, dreams that he is awake?
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'.
Metaphorically speaking, a person's ideas must be the building he lives in - otherwise there is something terribly wrong.
It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.
When all combine in every way to make everything easier, people will want difficulty. I conceived it as my task to make difficulties everywhere.
The truth is a trap: you cannot get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you.