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Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

Soren Kierkegaard quotes

Danish Philosopher May 5, 1813 – November 11, 1855

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The less support an idea has, the more fervently it must be believed in, so that a totally preposterous idea requires unflinching faith. Soren Kierkegaard
I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this. Soren Kierkegaard
Soren Kierkegaard quote: "People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the..."
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they never use. Soren Kierkegaard
The public is a host, more numerous than all the peoples together, but it is a body which can never be reviewed, it cannot even be represented, because it is an abstraction. Nevertheless, when the age is reflective and passionless and destroys everything concrete, the public becomes everything and is supposed to include everything. And that again shows how the individual is thrown back upon himself. Soren Kierkegaard
The more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense for the comic. It is only by the deepest suffering that one acquires true authority in the use of the comic, an authority which by one word transforms as by magic the reasonable creature one calls man into a caricature. Soren Kierkegaard
Soren Kierkegaard quote: "A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the..."
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil. Soren Kierkegaard
Soren Kierkegaard quote: "Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where..."
Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown. Soren Kierkegaard
What ability there is in an individual may be measured by the yardstick of how far there is between his understanding and his will. What a person can understand he must also be able to force himself to will. Between understanding and willing is where excuses and evasions have their being. Soren Kierkegaard
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. Soren Kierkegaard
Soren Kierkegaard quote: "Faith is the highest passion in a man."
Faith is the highest passion in a man. Soren Kierkegaard
Sitting calmly on a ship in fair weather is not a metaphor for having faith; but when the ship has sprung a leak, then enthusiastically to keep the ship afloat by pumping and not to seek the harbor--that is the metaphor for having faith. (Concluding Unscientific Postscript) Soren Kierkegaard
Soren Kierkegaard quote: "Leap of faith? yes, but only after reflection"
Leap of faith? yes, but only after reflection Soren Kierkegaard
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
Soren Kierkegaard quote: "People understand me so little that they do not even..."
People understand me so little that they do not even understand when I complain of being misunderstood. Soren Kierkegaard
Soren Kierkegaard quote: "What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political,..."
What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement. Soren Kierkegaard

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