Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness...they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Soren Kierkegaard

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• If 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself: 'Dijkstra would not have liked this', well that would be enough immortality for me.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Dirty
  • Immortality
  • Quick

• It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Believe
  • Souls
  • Heresy

• Lo! with a little rodI did but touch the honey of romance -And must I lose a soul's inheritance?

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Lose
  • Souls
  • Romance

• I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Authority
  • Ethics
  • Concern

• True, I am young, but for souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years.

  

  Pierre Corneille
  • Years
  • Young
  • Souls

• If we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Fear
  • Bold
  • Souls

• Our aim has also been to find a design that will begin to repair both the wounded cityscape and our wounded souls, to provide a place for the contemplation of both loss and new life.

  

  Vartan Gregorian
  • Life
  • Design
  • Souls

• We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Sweet
  • Patience

• If bodies please thee, praise God on occasion of them, and turn back thy love upon their Maker; lest in these things which please thee, thou displease. If souls please thee, be they loved in God: for they too are mutable, but in Him they are firmly established.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • God
  • Love
  • Praise

• There is no remedy for time misspent; No healing for the waste of idleness, Whose very languor is a punishment Heavier than active souls can feel or guess.

  

  Aubrey de Vere
  • Time
  • Healing
  • Souls

• SOCRATES: Perhaps we may be wrong; if so, you in your wisdom should convince us that we are mistaken in preferring justice to injustice. THRASYMACHUS: And how am I to convince you, he said, if you are not already convinced by what I have just said; what more can I do for you? Would you have me put the proof bodily into your souls?

  

  Plato
  • Wisdom
  • Souls
  • Injustice

• But these few are the salt of the earth; without them, human life would become a stagnant pool. Not only is it they who introduce good things which did not before exist, it is they who keep the life in those which already existed.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Earth
  • Exist
  • Human Life

• There is always need of persons not only to discover new truths, and point out when what were once truths are true no longer, but also to commence new practices, and set the example of more enlightened conduct, and better taste and sense in human life.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Discover
  • Truths
  • Human Life

• To become the founder of a new religion one must be psychologically infallible in one's knowledge of a certain average type of souls who have not yet recognized that they belong together.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Knowledge
  • Religion
  • Souls

• Do you believe in immortality? No, and one life is enough for me.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Enough
  • Believed

• There is a star above us which unites souls of the first order, though worlds and ages separate them.

  

  Queen Christina
  • Star
  • Souls
  • Worlds

• The production of souls is more important than the production of tanks.... And therefore I raise my glass to you, writers, the engineers of the human soul.

  

  Joseph Stalin
  • Souls
  • Human Soul
  • Tanks

• The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Soul
  • Consequence
  • Immortality

• I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Life
  • Religion
  • Immortality

• I believe that the starting point of faith is some doubt, not bein' so full of yourself and so confident that you are right and that God speaks only to us and doesn't speak to others, that God only cares about us and doesn't care about others.

  

  Barack Obama
  • God
  • Believe
  • Faith

• The nature of tragedy and accident is that we cannot predict.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Tragedy
  • Accidents

• Break through the bonds of your past.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Past
  • Bonds

• If there are none [gods], All our toil is without meaning.

  

  Euripides
  • Meaning
  • Gods
  • Toil

• This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness...they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Souls
  • Immortality
  • Human Life