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Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

Soren Kierkegaard quotes about reflection

Danish Philosopher May 5, 1813 – November 11, 1855

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Soren Kierkegaard quote: "For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while..."
For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God. Soren Kierkegaard
Reflection is and remains the hardest creditor in existence; hitherto it has cunningly bought up all the possible views of life, but it cannot buy the essentially religious and eternal view of life. Soren Kierkegaard
For the sadness in legitimate humour consists in the fact that honestly and without deceit it reflects in a purely human way upon what it is to be a child. Soren Kierkegaard
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... Soren Kierkegaard
The levelling process is the victory of abstraction over the individual. The levelling process in modern times, corresponds, in reflection, to fate in antiquity. Soren Kierkegaard
Our age is essentially one of understanding and reflection, without passion, momentarily bursting into enthusiasm and shrewdly relapsing into repose. 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
Soren Kierkegaard quote: "Leap of faith? yes, but only after reflection"
Leap of faith? yes, but only after reflection Soren Kierkegaard
Soren Kierkegaard quote: "On the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart"
On the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart 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

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