Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

Danish - Philosopher | May 5, 1813 - November 11, 1855

Once you label me you negate me.

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WisdomMeYouLabelOnce

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

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LifeYouLivingHiddenOwnForces

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

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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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GodYouSayNothingMoreOut

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

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HeartWillPurityOne ThingThing

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

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ChangeFaceFactsYouChangesBeing

Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.

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PatienceWhereReapCannotNecessary

The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.

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LifeBeautifulBeautiful ThingsWill

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

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NatureChangeGodPrayerInfluence

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

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ManDoingKnowNothingCapableHe

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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HappinessManThinkingOutsideHim

Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.

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