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

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

Soren Kierkegaard
Inspirational, People, Understanding

The question of immortality is of its nature not a scholarly question. It is a question welling up from the interior which the subject must put to itself as it becomes conscious of itself.

Soren Kierkegaard
Immortality, Conscious, Scholarly

Teach me, 0 God, not to torture myself, not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection, but rather teach me to breathe deeply in faith.

Soren Kierkegaard
Reflection, Breathe, Stifling

What labels me, negates me.

Soren Kierkegaard
Labels

People generally think that it is the world, the environment, external relationships, which stand in one's way, in the way of ones' good fortune... and at bottom it is always man himself that stands in his own way.

Soren Kierkegaard
Honesty, Men, Thinking

It is a frightful satire and an epigram on the modern age that the only use it knows for solitude is to make it a punishment, a jail sentence.

Soren Kierkegaard
Punishment, Jail, Solitude

Only one deception is possible in the infinite sense, self-deception.

Soren Kierkegaard
Self, Deception, Infinite
"Works of Love". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, 1847.

The truth is lived before it is understood. It must be fought for, tested, and appropriated. Truth is the way... Anyone will easily understand it if he just gives himself to it.

Soren Kierkegaard
Christian, Giving, Way

I am so stupid that I cannot understand philosophy; the antithesis of this is that philosophy is so clever that it cannot comprehend my stupidity. These antitheses are mediated in a higher unity; in our common stupidity.

Soren Kierkegaard
Clever, Philosophy, Stupid

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

Soren Kierkegaard
Relationship, Aquariums, Dating

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.

Soren Kierkegaard
Happy, Lying, Reality

Idleness, we are accustomed to say, is the root of all evil. To prevent this evil, work is recommended.... Idleness as such is by no means a root of evil; on the contrary, it is truly a divine life, if one is not bored.

Soren Kierkegaard
Mean, Roots, Evil

Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay, but like a child waking from its sleep with a heavenly smile.

Soren Kierkegaard
Smile, God, Children
Journal entry (translated by Alexander Dru, 1938).

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Soren Kierkegaard
Faith, Believe, Belief

The human race in the course of time has taken the liberty of softening and softening Christianity until at last we have contrived to make it exactly the opposite of what it is in the New Testament.

Soren Kierkegaard
Taken, Race, Opposites
Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Attack Upon 'Christendom'”

May new sufferings torment your soul.

Soren Kierkegaard
Soul, Suffering, May
Soren Kierkegaard (1946). “Either/or”

Genius never desires what does not exist.

Soren Kierkegaard
Desire, Doe, Genius

Truth has always had many loud proclaimers, but the question is whether a person will in the deepest sense acknowledge the truth, allow it to permeate his whole being, accept all its consequences, and not have an emergency hiding place for himself and a Judas kiss for the consequence.

Soren Kierkegaard
Truth, Kissing, Emergencies

The most terrible fight is not when there is one opinion against another, the most terrible is when two men say the same thing -- and fight about the interpretation, and this interpretation involves a difference of quality.

Soren Kierkegaard
Fighting, Men, Two

The crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.

Soren Kierkegaard
Ideas, Existentialism, Willing
The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, (Journals 1A), August 1, 1835.

A good decision is our will to do everything we can within our power. It means to serve God with all we've got, be it little or much. Every person can do that.

Soren Kierkegaard
Christian, Mean, Decision

I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night.

Soren Kierkegaard
Night, Silence, Confidant

The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed.

Soren Kierkegaard
Loss, Self, Wife

How could it occur to anyone to demonstrate that God exists unless one has already allowed Himself to ignore Him? A king's existence is demonstrated by way of subjection and submissiveness. Do you want to try and demonstrate that the king exists? Will you do so by offering a string of proofs, a series of arguments? No. If you are serious, you will demonstrate the king's existence by your submission, by the way you live. And so it is with demonstrating God's existence. It is accomplished not by proofs but by worship. Any other way is but a thinker's pious bungling.

Soren Kierkegaard
Christian, Kings, Offering

to have faith is precisely to lose one's mind so as to win God.

Soren Kierkegaard
Winning, Mind, Have Faith

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