Søren Aabye Kierkegaard Quotes

• There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to accept what is true.

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  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Blindness, Fools

• What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Conceals, Person

• Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Living, Trouble

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Man, Afraid

• There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life’s highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Die

• The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.

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  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Dies, Rule, Martyrdom

• The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.

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  Topics in Truth

• 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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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Paradox

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Forget, Man

• The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.

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  Topics in Life

• The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

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  Topics in God, Influence

  Tags in Faith

• Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Paradox

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Sorrow, Childhood

• Purity of heart is to will one thing.

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  Tags in Heart, Purity

• Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Personality, Man

• People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People

• People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Freedom, Speech

• People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.

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  Tags in People, World, Travel

• Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.

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  Tags in Patience

• Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

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  Topics in Life

Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (61)

Birth:	5th May, 1813
Death:	11th November, 1855
Nationality:	Danish
Profession:	Novelist, Philosopher, Theologian, Writer

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