Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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Future is everything that past has forgotten.
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Truth is not introduced into the individual from without, but was within him all the time.
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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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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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All essential knowledge relates to existence, or only such knowledge as has an essential relationship to existence is essential knowledge.
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The wisdom of the years is confusing. Only the wisdom of eternity is edifying.
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It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.
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To love another person is to help them love God.
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The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
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Why I so much prefer autumn to spring is that in the autumn one looks at heaven--in the spring at the earth.
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And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.
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Men who not religious or artists are fools.
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We live as if we were unaware of our impending destruction.
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Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false.
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My scholarly expectation is then that I may succeed in becoming clever in philosophy in spite of my stupidity.
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Boredom rests upon the nothingness that winds its way through existence; its giddiness, like that which comes from gazing down into an infinite abyss, is infinite.
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To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self.... And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one's self.
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When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, "It is talking to me, and about me".
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Nothing is as heady as the wine of possibility.
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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.
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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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The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.