“Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.”
— Soren Kierkegaard
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
Category: patience
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The function of prayer is not to
“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
— Soren Kierkegaard
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
Category: nature
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The function of prayer is not to
“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
— Soren Kierkegaard
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
Category: change
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Life is not a problem to be
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
— Soren Kierkegaard
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
Category: life
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The function of prayer is not to
“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
— Soren Kierkegaard
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
Category: god
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Personality is only ripe when a man
“Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.”
— Soren Kierkegaard
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
Category: truth
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Life can only be understood backwards; but
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
— Soren Kierkegaard
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
Category: life
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People commonly travel the world over to
“People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.”
— Soren Kierkegaard
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
Category: travel
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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is
“Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.”
— Soren Kierkegaard
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
Category: death
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The truth is a snare: you cannot
“The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.”
— Soren Kierkegaard
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
Category: truth
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Old age realizes the dreams of youth:
“Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.”
— Soren Kierkegaard
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
Category: dreams
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