Quotes by Søren Kierkegaard

Søren Kierkegaard

Søren Kierkegaard

Danish philosopher

Lived from: 1813 - 1855

Category: Philosophers Country: FlagDenmark

Born: 5 may 1813 Died: 11 november 1855

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  • Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic - if it is pulled out I shall die.
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  • The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
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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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  • 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.
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  • The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.
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  • The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards morning: first of all come great dreams, then a feeling of laziness, and finally a witty or clever excuse for remaining in bed.
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  • The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
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  • There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
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  • What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.
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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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  • Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.
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