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Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.

– Soren Kierkegaard

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

– Soren Kierkegaard

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.

– Soren Kierkegaard

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

– Soren Kierkegaard

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

– Soren Kierkegaard

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.

– Soren Kierkegaard

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

– Soren Kierkegaard

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

– Soren Kierkegaard

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

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

– Soren Kierkegaard

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

The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.

– Soren Kierkegaard

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

– Soren Kierkegaard

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

– Soren Kierkegaard

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.

– Soren Kierkegaard

Once you label me you negate me.

– Soren Kierkegaard

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

– Soren Kierkegaard

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

– Soren Kierkegaard

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

– Soren Kierkegaard

There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life’s highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.

– Soren Kierkegaard

Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die.

– Soren Kierkegaard

Be that self which one truly is.

– Soren Kierkegaard

To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.

– Soren Kierkegaard

If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.

– Soren Kierkegaard

Boredom is the root of all evil – the despairing refusal to be oneself.

– Soren Kierkegaard

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

– Soren Kierkegaard

Don’t forget to love yourself.

– Soren Kierkegaard

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

– Soren Kierkegaard

The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.

– Soren Kierkegaard

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

– Soren Kierkegaard

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