Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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Any truth is only true up to a certain point. When one oversteps the mark, it becomes a non-truth.
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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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The person who praises God is on the tracks of justice.
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The truth is lived before it is understood. It must be fought for, tested, and appropriated. Truth is the way... Anyone will easily understand it if he just gives himself to it.
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To despair over one's sins indicates that sin has become or wants to be internally consistent. It wants nothing to do with the good, does not want to be so weak as to listen occasionally to other talk. No, it insists on listening only to itself, on having dealings only with itself; it closes itself up within itself, indeed, locks itself inside one more inclosure, and protects itself against every attack or pursuit by the good by despairing over sin.
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Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth.
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Truth is not introduced into the individual from without, but was within him all the time.
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What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?
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Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.
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Without risk, faith is an impossibility.
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One can advise comfortably from a safe port.
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Our age is essentially one of understanding and reflection, without passion, momentarily bursting into enthusiasm and shrewdly relapsing into repose.
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What labels me, negates me.
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Christians remind me of schoolboys who want to look up the answers to their math problems in the back of the book rather than work them through.
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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A man who cannot seduce men cannot save them either.
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Hope is passion for what is possible.
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Men who not religious or artists are fools.
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Genius never desires what does not exist.
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The melancholy have the best sense of the comic, the opulent often the best sense of the rustic, the dissolute often the best sense of the moral, and the doubter often the best sense of the religious.
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The human race in the course of time has taken the liberty of softening and softening Christianity until at last we have contrived to make it exactly the opposite of what it is in the New Testament.
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With respect to physical existence, one needs little, and to the degree that one needs less, the more perfect one is.
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The absurd . . . the fact that with God all things are possible. The absurd is not one of the factors which can be discriminated within the proper compass of the understanding: it is not identical with the improbable, the unexpected, the unforeseen.
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The resolving of the ethical, is freedom; the negative resolution also has this, but the freedom, blank and bare, is as if tongue-tied, hard to express, and generally has something hard in its nature. Falling in love, however, promptly sets it to music, even if this composition contains a very difficult passage.