Søren Aabye Kierkegaard Quotes

Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (60)

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

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• 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

• 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

• Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Freedom, Anxiety
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  Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

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  Topics in Life, Memory

  Tags in Now, Forwards

• At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Lies, Strangers

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Evil, Boredom

• Don’t forget to love yourself.

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  Topics in Love

  Tags in Forget

• 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

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Concepts

• 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

• 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

• Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Facts

• Be that self which one truly is.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self

• How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Men, Absurd

• It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.

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  Tags in Imperfection, Man

• Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Evil, Idleness

• Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Lovers

• Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Faith, Passion
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  Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.

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  Tags in Personality, Man

• God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.

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  Topics in God