Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
“Life can only be understood
backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
“Life is not a problem to be solved,
but a reality to be experienced.”
“Anxiety is the dizziness of
freedom.”
“There are two ways to be fooled.
One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is
true.”
“The most painful state of being is
remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have.”
“Take a chance and you may lose.
Take not a chance and you have lost already.”
“Don’t forget to love yourself.”
“Prayer does not change God, but it
changes him who prays.”
“It’s better to get lost in the
passion than to lose the passion.”
“Who am I How did I come into the
world Why was I not consulted”
“The crucial thing is to find a
truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live
and die.”
“I’m so misunderstood that people
misunderstand me even when I tell them I’m misunderstood.”
“The most common form of despair is
not being who you are.”
“Without risk, faith is an
impossibility.”
“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.”“Once you label me you negate me.”
“Leap of faith – yes, but only after
reflection.”
“I am so stupid that I cannot
understand philosophy; the antithesis of this is that philosophy is so clever
that it cannot comprehend my stupidity. These antitheses are mediated in a
higher unity; in our common stupidity.”
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“To dare is to lose one’s footing
momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.”
“Face the facts of being what you
are, for that is what changes what you are.”
“A fire broke out backstage in a
theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and
applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that’s just
how the world will come to an end
“The greatest hazard of all, losing
one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss – an arm, a leg, five
dollars, a wife, etc. – is sure to be noticed.”
“God creates everything out of
nothing. And everything which God is to use, he first reduces to nothing.”
“Most people are subjective toward
themselves and objective toward all others, frightfully objective sometimes –
but the task is precisely to be objective toward oneself and subjective toward
all others.”
“The proud person always wants to do
the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength,
he is fighting not with man, but with God.”
“The thing that cowardice fears most
is decision.”
“It belongs to the imperfection of
everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its
opposite.”
“Patience is necessary, and one
cannot reap immediately where one has sown.”
“For without risk there is no faith,
and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.”
“God does not think; he creates. He
does not exist; he is eternal.”
“The more a person limits himself,
the more resourceful he becomes.”
“Be that self which one truly is.”
“This, then, is the ultimate paradox
of thought
“The function of prayer is not to
influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
“Confidence is the present tense of
hope.”
“Do it or don’t do it – you will
regret both.”
“To love another person is to help
them love God.”
“To be a teacher in the right sense
is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student.”
“It is very dangerous to go into
eternity with possibilities which one has oneself prevented from becoming
realities. A possibility is a hint from God. One must follow it.”
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“As the arrow, loosed from the bow
by the hand of the practiced archer, does not rest till it has reached the
mark, so men pass from God to God. He is the mark for which they have been
created, and they do not rest till they find their rest in him.”
“It is not the path which is the
difficulty; rather, it is the difficulty which is the path.”
“I believe that there is a longing
in my soul that searches the whole world.”
“I am convinced that God is love,
this thought has for me a primitive lyrical validity. When it is present to me,
I am unspeakably blissful, when it is absent, I long for it more vehemently
than does the lover for his object.”
“No time of life is so beautiful as
the early days of love, when with every meeting, every glance, one fetches
something new home to rejoice over.”
“The Bible is very easy to
understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to
be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we
understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.”
“What is a poet An unhappy person
who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as
sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.”
“I have only one friend, and that is
echo. Why is it my friend Because I love my sorrow, and echo does not take it
away from me. I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night. Why
is it my confidant Because it remains silent.”
“It is the normal state of the human
heart to try to build its identity around something besides God.”
“People demand freedom of speech as
a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
“What if everything in the world
were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears”
“In my great melancholy, I loved
life, for I love my melancholy.”
“Love is all, it gives all, and it
takes all.”
“When you read God’s Word, you must
constantly be saying to yourself, “It is talking to me, and about me”.”
“In order to swim one takes off all
one’s clothes – in order to aspire to the truth one must undress in a far more
inward sense, divest oneself of all one’s inward clothes, of thoughts,
conceptions, selfishness etc., before one is sufficiently naked.”
“Prayer is a silent surrendering of
everything to God.”
“The highest of all is not to
understand the highest but to act upon it.”
“Love believes all things and yet is
never deceived.”
“Therefore do not deceive yourself!
Of all deceivers fear most yourself!”
“Whoever has learned to be anxious
in the right way has learned the ultimate.”
“I have, I believe, the courage to
doubt everything; I have, I believe, the courage to fight against everything;
but I do not have the courage to acknowledge anything, the courage to possess,
to own anything.”
“There is nothing with which every
man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing
and becoming.”
“Wherever there is a crowd there is
untruth.”
“The tyrant dies and his rule is
over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.”
“A human being is a spirit. But what
is spirit Spirit is the self. But what is self The self is a relation that
relates itself to itself or is the relation’s relating itself to itself in the
relation.”
“Faith is a marvel, and yet no human
being is excluded from it; for that in which all human life is united is
passion, and faith is a passion.”
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“Just as in earthly life lovers long
for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other,
to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment
when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.”
“It is not where we breathe, but
where we Love, that we live.”
“A possibility is a hint from God.
One must follow it.”
“I begin with the principle that all
men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to
contradict me in this.”
“Love does not alter the beloved, it
alters itself.”
“A man who cannot seduce men cannot save
them either.”
“My melancholy is the most faithful
sweetheart I have had.”
“In the eyes of God, the infinite
spirit, all the millions that have lived and now live do not make a crowd. He
only sees each individual.”
“If you think you understand, it
isn’t God.”
“Worship isn’t God’s show. God is
the audience. God’s watching. The congregation, they are the actors in this
drama. Worship is their show. And the minister is just reminding the people of
their forgotten lines.”
“The door to happiness opens
outward.”
“It is perfectly true, as
philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the
other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.”
“To pace about, looking to obtain
status, looking to attain ‘importance’ – I can think of nothing more
ridiculous.”
“What looks like politics, and
imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious
movement.”
“There is something almost cruel
about the Christian’s being placed in a world which in every way wants to
pressure him to do the opposite of what God bids him to do.”
“In actuality, no one ever sank so
deep that he could not sink deeper, and there may be one or many who sank
deeper. So it is always possible to be happy and grateful that things are not
worse!”
“Fate, then, is the nothing of
anxiety.”
“I would rather be a swineherd,
understood by the swine, than a poet misunderstood by men.”
“If anyone on the verge of action
should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.”
“The person who praises God is on
the tracks of justice.”
“On the secretly blushing cheek is
reflected the glow of the heart.”
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“Pleasure disappoints, possibility
never. And what wine is so sparkling, who so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as
possibility.”
“People understand me so poorly that
they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.”
“Happiness is the greatest hiding
place for despair.”
“Worldly wisdom thinks that love is
a relationship between man and man. Christianity teaches that love is a
relationship between man-God-man, that is, that God is the middle term.”
“It takes moral courage to grieve;
it requires religious courage to rejoice.”
“Where unclarity resides, there is
temptation, and there it proves only too easily the stronger. Wherever there is
ambiguity, wherever there is wavering, there is disobedience down at the
bottom.”
“I have only one confidant, and that
is the silence of night.”
“You train yourself in the art of
being mysterious to everyone. My dear friend! What if there were no one, who
cared about guessing your riddle, what pleasure would you then take in it”
“It was completely fruitless to
quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally
fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.”
“Nothing is as heady as the wine of
possibility.”
“Had I to carve an inscription on my
tombstone I would ask for none other than “The Individual.””
“Purity of heart is to will one
thing.”
“Why I so much prefer autumn to
spring is that in the autumn one looks at heaven – in the spring at the earth.”
“Death cannot explain itself. The
earnestness consists precisely in this, that the observer must explain it to
himself.”
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