Quotes by Kierkegaard, Soren

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People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought >>

Quotations about Understanding

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating tha >>

There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can >>

Nothing can be love or hated unless it is first known. >>

It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are. Human understanding has vulgarly occupied itself with nothing but understanding, but if it would only take the trouble to understand itself at the same time it would simply have to posit the paradox.

Kierkegaard, Soren