Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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Those who dream must be awakened, and the deeper the people are who slumber, or the deeper they slumber, the more important it is that they be awakened, and the more powerfully must they be awakened.
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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.
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You should therefore say: alone in one's boat, alone with one's care, alone with one's despair, which one is craven enough to want rather to keep than submit to the pain of being healed.
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Whoever has the world's treasures has them no matter how he got them. In the world of the spirit it is otherwise.
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A road well begun is the battle half won. The important thing is to make a beginning and get under way.
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Language has time as its element; all other media have space as their element.
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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.
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Death cannot explain itself. The earnestness consists precisely in this, that the observer must explain it to himself.
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At one time my only wish was to be a police official. It seemed to me to be an occupation for my sleepless intriguing mind. I had the idea that there, among criminals, were people to fight: clever, vigorous, crafty fellows. Later I realized that it was good that I did not become one, for most police cases involve misery and wretchedness-not crimes and scandals.
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This is the miracle of life: that each person who heeds him or herself knows what no scientist can ever know: who he or she is.
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Irony is the cultivation of the spirit and therefore follows next after immediacy; then comes the ethicist, then the humourist, then the religious person.
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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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The Bible is God's love letter to us.
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Talent warms-up the given (as they say in cookery) and makes it apparent; genius brings something new. But our time lets talent pass for genius. They want to abolish the genius, deify the genius, and let talent forge ahead.
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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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It is intelligent to ask two questions: (1) Is it possible? (2) Can I do it?. But it is unintelligent to ask these questions: (1) Is it real? (2) Has my neighbor done it?
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The question is asked in ignorance, by one who does not even know what can have led him to ask it.
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I would have perished had I not perished.
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A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.
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Adversity not only draws people together, but brings forth that beautiful inward friendship.
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That is the road we all have to take - over the Bridge of Sight into eternity.
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. . .the larger the crowd, the more probable that that which it praises is folly, and the more improbable that it is truth; and the most improbable of all that it is any eternal truth.
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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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What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge must precede every act. What matters is to find a purpose, to see what it really is that God wills that I shall do; 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.