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  2. 1167 quotes from Søren Kierkegaard: 'Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.', 'The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.', and 'People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.'.

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    The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1830s

    1. Translations used include those from: A Selection from the Journals of Kierkegaard (1938) by Alexander Dru, and Søren Kierkegaard : Papers and Journals(1996) by Alastair Hannay 1. The reason I cannot really say that I positively enjoy nature is that I do not quite realize what it is that I enjoy. A work of art, on the other hand, I can grasp. I can — if I may put it this way — find that Archimedian point, and as soon as I have found it, everything is readily clear for me. Then I am able to...

    If someone were to expound that godliness is to belong to childhood in the temporal sense and thus dwindle and die with the years as childhood does, is to be a happy frame of mind that cannot be pr...

    The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1850s

    1. The truth is always in the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because as a rule the minority is made up of those who actually have an opinion, while the strength of the majority is illusory, formed of that crowd which has no opinion — and which therefore the next moment (when it becomes clear that the minority is the stronger) adopts the latter's opinion, which now is in the majority, i.e. becomes rubbish by having the whole retinue and numerousness on its sid...

    Practice in Christianity

    1. Main article: Practice in Christianity 1. Editor’s Preface In this book, originating in the year 1848, the requirement for being a Christian is forced up by the pseudonymous author to the supreme ideality. Yet the requirement should indeed be stated, presented, and heard. From the Christian point of view, there ought to be no scaling down of the requirement, nor suppression of it-instead of a personal admission and confession. The requirement should be heard-and I understand what is said a...

    An Upbuilding Discourse December 20, 1850

    1. The Woman Who Was a Sinner Luke 7:37ff 2. Source: Without Authority by Soren Kierkegaard, Hong 1997 P. 145ff 1. That a woman is presented as a teacher, as a prototype of piety, cannot amaze anyone who knows that piety or godliness is fundamentally womanliness. ... from a woman you learn concern for the one thing needful, from Mary, sister of Lazarus, who sat silent at Christ's feet with her heart's choice: the one thing needful. P. 149 1. Happy is the one in whom there is true sorrow over...

  5. 114 Insightful Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard On Fear, Regret, Existentialism And More. Famous As: Religious Author Who is Considered to be the First 'Existentialist' Philosopher. Born On: May 5, 1813. Died On: November 11, 1855. Born In: Copenhagen, Denmark. Died At Age: 42.

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  6. Fear and Trembling Quotes Showing 1-30 of 172. “If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.”. ― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling.

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