1. Soren Kierkegaard
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard ) was a prolific 19th century Danish philosopher and theologian. Kierkegaard strongly criticised both the Hegelianism of his time, and what he saw as the empty formalities of the Danish church. Much of his work deals with more..

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Soren Kierkegaard:To dare is to lose one\'s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself. #Risk

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Soren Kierkegaard:Don\'t forget to love yourself. #Love

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Soren Kierkegaard: Be that self which one truly is. #Self-love

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Soren Kierkegaard: Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living. #Life and Living

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Soren Kierkegaard:If a man cannot forget, he will never amount to much. #Memory

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Soren Kierkegaard: 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. #Saints

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Soren Kierkegaard: It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position. #Life and Living

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Soren Kierkegaard: It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey. #Belief

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Soren Kierkegaard: Purity of heart is to will one thing. #Purity

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Soren Kierkegaard: Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward. #Life and Living

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Soren Kierkegaard: Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards. #Life and Living

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Soren Kierkegaard: If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility! #Possibilities

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Soren Kierkegaard: This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die. #Life and Living

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Soren Kierkegaard: 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. #Ideas

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Soren Kierkegaard: I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep, for that would be a pity, for sleeping is the highest accomplishment of genius. #Sleep

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Soren Kierkegaard: Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion -- and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion... while truth again reverts to a new minority. #Minorities

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Soren Kierkegaard: What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion. #Passion

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Soren Kierkegaard: The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering. #Martyrdom

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Soren Kierkegaard: It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important #Concentration

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Soren Kierkegaard: The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. #Prayer

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