Quotes by Søren Kierkegaard

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We need poets to remind us of the ideal.

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Poetry:... transfiguring life by explaining it.

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What is truth but a life for an idea?

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A witness to the truth is a man whose life is deeply initiated in inner struggles, in fear and trembling, in sensations, in the miseries of the soul, in moral pains. A witness to the truth is a man who, in poverty, testifies for the truth, being despised, disregarded, hated, mocked, ridiculed for it.