Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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Only one deception is possible in the infinite sense, self-deception.
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I'm so misunderstood that people misunderstand me even when I tell them I'm misunderstood.
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If the ethical - that is, social morality- is the highest ... then no categories are needed other than the Greek philosophical categories.
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And then the spirit brings hope, hope in the strictest Christian sense, hope which is hoping against hope. For an immediate hope exists in every person; it may be more powerfully alive in one person than in another; but in death every hope of this kind dies and turns into hopelessness. Into this night of hopelessness (it is death that we are describing) comes the life-giving spirit and brings hope, the hope of eternity. It is against hope, for there was no longer any hope for that merely natural hope; this hope is therefore a hope contrary to hope.
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There can be no faith without risk.
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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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Love believes all things and yet is never deceived.
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With the daguerreotype, everyone will be able to have their portrait taken . . . and at the same time everything is being done to make us all look exactly the same.
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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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...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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Fate, then, is the nothing of anxiety.
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Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
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The wisdom of the years is confusing. Only the wisdom of eternity is edifying.
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Take it and return it: the kiss of love.
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Irony is the birth-pangs of the objective mind (based upon the misrelationship, discovered by the I , between existence and the idea of existence). Humor is the birth -pangs of the absolute mind (based upon the misrelationship, discovered by the I , between the I and the idea of the I.
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Spirit is the third, yet in such a way that one can speak of a synthesis only when the spirit is posited.
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The object of Christian faith is not the teaching but the Teacher.
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The only analogy I have before me is Socrates. My task is a Socratic task, to revise the definition of what it is to be a Christian. For my part I do not call myself a "Christian" (thus keeping the ideal free), but I am able to make it evident that the others are still less than I.
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This age will die not as a result of some evil, but from a lack of passion.
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A human being is a spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is self? The self is a relation that relates itself to itself or is the relation's relating itself to itself in the relation.
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No one may pride himself at being more than an individual, and no one despondently think that he is not an individual.
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I must find a truth that is true for me.
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Future is everything that past has forgotten.
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Choose to be who you are. . . The individual who would become a person must at some point take over his entire being - must, that is, choose herself.