Søren Aabye Kierkegaard Quotes

• During the first period of a man’s life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.

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  Topics in Life

• Don’t forget to love yourself.

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  Topics in Love, Wisdom

  Tags in Forget

• 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.

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  Tags in Concepts

• Boredom is the root of all evil – the despairing refusal to be oneself.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Evil, Boredom

• Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.

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  Topics in Death

• Be that self which one truly is.

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  Tags in Self

• At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

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  Tags in Lies, Strangers

• Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

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  Topics in Fear, Life

  Tags in Freedom, Anxiety

• A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Man

• Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

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  Topics in Religion

• It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Concentrate, Relationships, Significant, Important, Dating

• What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

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  Topics in Age

• Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

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  Topics in Age, Funny

• To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Courage

• Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

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  Topics in Age, Funny

• Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.

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  Tags in Boredom, Evil

• I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations – one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it – you will regret both.

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  Topics in Advice, Life

• Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.

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  Topics in Love

• Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

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  Topics in Life, Memory

  Tags in Now, Forwards

• Where am I? Who am I?
  How did I come to be here?
  What is this thing called the world?
  How did I come into the world?
  Why was I not consulted?
  And If I am compelled to take part in it,
  Where is the director?
  I want to see him.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Purpose

Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (61)

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

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