Soren Kierkegaard

Soren Kierkegaard

Philosopher, Theologian

Soren Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher known for his exploration of existentialism and the nature of faith, particularly in works like 'Either/Or.'

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Born
May 5, 1813
Died
November 11, 1855
Quotes
496
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#116

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"It is a wonderful thing to see a first-rate philosopher at prayer. Tough-minded thinking and tenderhearted reverence are friends, not enemies. We have for too long separated the head from the heart, and we are the lesser for it. We love God with the mind and we love God with the heart. In reality, we are descending with the mind into the heart and there standing before God in ceaseless wonder and endless praise. As the mind and the heart work in concert, a kind of loving rationality pervades all we say and do. This brings unity to us and glory to God."

Prayer Heart Reality
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"...there is one thing that all Satan's cunning and all the snares of temptation cannot take by surprise - an undivided will."

Christian Temptation Satan
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"What a misfortune to be a woman! And yet, the worst misfortune is not to understand what a misfortune it is."

Worst Misfortunes
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"What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.... And people flock around the poet and say: 'Sing again soon' - that is, 'May new sufferings torment your soul but your lips be fashioned as before, for the cry would only frighten us, but the music, that is blissful."

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"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."

Ideas Important Dies
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"The thinker without a paradox is like a lover without a feeling: a paltry mediocrity."

Feelings Mediocrity Lovers
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"Every human being is tried this way in the active service of expectancy. Now comes the fulfillment and relieves him, but soon he is again placed on reconnaissance for expectancy; then he is again relieved, but as long as there is any future for him, he has not yet finished his service. And while human life goes on this way in very diverse expectancy, expecting very different things according to different times and occasions and in different frames of mind, all life is again one nightwatch of expectancy."

Long Mind Different
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"Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his place so that you may understand . . . what he learns and the way he understands it."

Education Teacher May
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"To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self.... And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one's self."

Life Motivational Adventure
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"A man's personality is matured only when he appropriates the truth, whether it is spoken by Balaam's ass or a sniggering wag or an apostle or an angel."

Angel Men Personality
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"You should therefore say: alone in one's boat, alone with one's care, alone with one's despair, which one is craven enough to want rather to keep than submit to the pain of being healed."

Pain Despair Care
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"This is the miracle of life: that each person who heeds him or herself knows what no scientist can ever know: who he or she is."

Self Miracle Scientist
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"That which is truly human no generation learns from the one before it. No generation learns from another how to love. No generation has a shorter task assigned to it except insofar as the previous generation shirked its task and deluded itself."

Tasks Generations How To Love
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"It will be easy for us the first time we receive that ball of yarn from Ariadne (love) and then go through all the mazes of the labyrinth (life) and kill the monster. But how many there are who plunge into life (the labyrinth) without taking that precaution?"

Yarn Labyrinth Mazes
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"It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing."

Too Much Equal Interest
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"Affliction is able to drown out every earthly voice. . . but the voice of eternity within a person it cannot drown."

Adversity Voice Affliction
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"Only one deception is possible in the infinite sense, self-deception."

Self Deception Infinite
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"He who does not know how to encircle a girl so that she loses sight of everything he does not want her to see, he who does not know how to poetize himself into a girl so that it is from her that everything proceeds as he wants it-he is and remains a bungler"

Girl Sight Doe
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"Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood."

Childhood Kind Scene
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"My tactics were, by God's aid, to employ every means to make it clear what the requirement of Christianity truly is."

Mean Requirements Tactics
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