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Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

Soren Kierkegaard quotes

Danish Philosopher May 5, 1813 – November 11, 1855

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Soren Kierkegaard quote: "This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to..."
This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think. 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
I am so fed up and joyless that not only have I nothing to fill my soul, I cannot even conceive of anything that could possibly satisfy it - alas, not even the bliss of heaven. Soren Kierkegaard
For like a poisonous breath over the fields, like a mass of locusts over Egypt, so the swarm of excuses is a general plaque, a ruinous infection among men, that eats off the sprouts of the Eternal. Soren Kierkegaard
And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith. Soren Kierkegaard
Soren Kierkegaard quote: "At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference."
At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference. Soren Kierkegaard
Soren Kierkegaard quote: "My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had."
My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had. Soren Kierkegaard
Soren Kierkegaard quote: "By comparison with a passionate age, an age without passion..."
By comparison with a passionate age, an age without passion gains in scope what is loses in intensity. Soren Kierkegaard
Soren Kierkegaard quote: "Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own."
Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own. Soren Kierkegaard
Reflection is not the evil; but a reflective condition and the deadlock which it involves, by transforming the capacity for action into a means of escape from action, is both corrupt and dangerous, and leads in the end to a retrograde movement. Soren Kierkegaard
Soren Kierkegaard quote: "Sleeping is the height of genius"
Sleeping is the height of genius Soren Kierkegaard
Soren Kierkegaard quote: "In the first case, he personally enjoyed the esthetic; in the..."
In the first case, he personally enjoyed the esthetic; in the second case, he esthetically enjoyed his personality. Soren Kierkegaard
It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair. Soren Kierkegaard
Soren Kierkegaard quote: "It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man..."
It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite. Soren Kierkegaard
Soren Kierkegaard quote: "I'm so misunderstood that people misunderstand me even when I..."
I'm so misunderstood that people misunderstand me even when I tell them I'm misunderstood. Soren Kierkegaard

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