Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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I must find a truth that is true for me.
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In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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Jurists say that a capital crime submerges all lesser crimes; and so it is with faith. Its absurdity makes all petty difficultiesvanish.
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What a difference! Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient! when ethics arrives on the scene, everything becomes harsh, angular and infinitely boring.
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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.
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I would have perished had I not perished.
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Take it and return it: the kiss of love.
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To be a woman is something so strange, so confusing and so complicated that only a woman could put up with it.
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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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In order to help another effectively, I must understand what he understands. If I do not know that, my greater understanding will be of no help to him... instruction begins when you put yourself in his place so that you may understand what he understands and in the way he understands it.
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Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than "The Individual."
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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.
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...my soul always reverts to the Old Testament and to Shakespeare. There at least one feels that it's human beings talking. There people hate, people love, people murder their enemy and curse his descendants through all generations, there people sin.
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Only one human being recognized as one's neighbour is necessary in order to cure a man of self-love.
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Prayer is a silent surrendering of everything to God.
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Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life.
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The minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion.
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Intelligence has got the upper hand to such an extent that it transforms the real task into an unreal trick and reality into a play.
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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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To the frivolous Christianity is certainly not glad tidings, for it wishes first of all to make them serious.
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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.
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A man may perform astonishing feats and comprehend a vast amount of knowledge, and yet have no understanding of himself. But suffering directs a man to look within. If it succeeds, then there, within him, is the beginning of his learning.
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Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
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To the Christian, love is the works of love. To say that love is a feeling or anything of the kind is an unchristian conception of love. That is the aesthetic definition and therefore fits the erotic and everything of that nature. But to the Christian love is the works of love. Christ's love was not an inner feeling, a full heart and what not, it was the work of love which was his life.