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I have never fought in such a way as to say: I am the true Christian, others are not Christians.

I have never fought in such a way as to say: I am the true Christian, others are not Christians.

Soren Kierkegaard
Christian, Way
"The Point of View of My Work as an Author". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, 1848, 1851, 1859.

To be lost in spiritlessness is the most terrible thing of all.

Soren Kierkegaard
Lost, Terrible, Terrible Things

When you open the door which you shut in order to pray to God, the first person you meet as you go out is your neighbour whom you shall love. Wonderful!

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Doors, Order, Community

The meaning lies in the appropriation.

Soren Kierkegaard
Lying, Appropriation
"Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, 1845.

It is human self-renunciation when a man denies himself and the world opens up to him. But it is Christian self-renunciation when he denies himself and, because the world precisely for this shuts itself up to him, he must as one thrust out by the world seek God's confidence. The double-danger lies precisely in meeting opposition there where he had expected to find support, and he has to turn about twice; whereas the merely human self-resignation turns once.

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Christian, Lying, Men
"Works of Love". Book by Søren Kierkegaard, 1847.

Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, who so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility.

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Wine, Pleasure, Possibility
Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Either/ Or”

For like a poisonous breath over the fields, like a mass of locusts over Egypt, so the swarm of excuses is a general plaque, a ruinous infection among men, that eats off the sprouts of the Eternal.

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Men, Egypt, Fields
Soren Kierkegaard (2013). “The Wisdom of Kierkegaard”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

Humor (is) intrinsitc to Christianity.

Soren Kierkegaard
Christianity, Theologian

There are men who are wanting in the comparative, they as a rule are the most interesting.

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Men, Interesting, Most Interesting

Backwards understood be only can but, forwards lived be must life.

Soren Kierkegaard
Creativity, Backwards, Understood

The only analogy I have before me is Socrates. My task is a Socratic task, to revise the definition of what it is to be a Christian. For my part I do not call myself a "Christian" (thus keeping the ideal free), but I am able to make it evident that the others are still less than I.

Soren Kierkegaard
Christian, Tasks, Analogies
Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Attack Upon 'Christendom'”

No, I won't leave the world--I'll enter a lunatic asylum and see if the profundity of insanity reveals to me the riddles of life. Idiot, why didn't I do that long ago, why has it taken me so long to understand what it means when the Indians honour the insane, step aside for them? Yes, a lunatic asylum--don't you think I may end up there?

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Taken, Mean, Thinking

A poet is an unhappy creature whose heart is tortured by deepest suffering but whose lips are so formed that when his sighs and cries stream out over them, their sound beomes like the sound of beautiful music . . . . And men flock about the poet saying, Sing for us soon again; that is to say, may new sufferings torture your soul, and may your lips continue to be formed as before.

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Beautiful, Heart, Men

Spirit is the third, yet in such a way that one can speak of a synthesis only when the spirit is posited.

Soren Kierkegaard
Way, Synthesis, Spirit
"The Concept of Anxiety". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, p. 85, Soren Kierkegaard.

At one time my only wish was to be a police official. It seemed to me to be an occupation for my sleepless intriguing mind. I had the idea that there, among criminals, were people to fight: clever, vigorous, crafty fellows. Later I realized that it was good that I did not become one, for most police cases involve misery and wretchedness-not crimes and scandals.

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Clever, Fighting, Ideas

Who is also aware of the tremendous risk involved in faith - when he nevertheless makes the leap of faith - this [is] subjectivity ... at its height.

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Philosophical, Risk, Leap Of Faith

Most people believe that the Christian commandments, e.g. to love one's neighbor as oneself, are intentionally a little too severe - like setting a clock half an hour ahead to make sure of not being late in the morning.

Soren Kierkegaard
Christian, Morning, Believe

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

Soren Kierkegaard
Death, Passion, Light
"The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard" edited and translated by Alexander Dru, 1959.

In the Christianity of Christendom the Cross has become something like the child’s hobby-horse and trumpet.

Soren Kierkegaard
Horse, Children, Hobbies
Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Attack Upon 'Christendom'”

And if something should be found, particularly in the first part of the dissertation, that one is generally not accustomed to come across in scholarly writings, the reader must forgive my jocundity, just as I, in order to lighten the burden, sometimes sing at my work.

Soren Kierkegaard
Work, Writing, Order

To be a teacher does not mean simply to affirm that such a thing is so, or to deliver a lecture, etc.

Soren Kierkegaard
Teacher, Mean, Lectures
"The Point of View of My Work as an Author". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, 1848.

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