Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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We live as if we were unaware of our impending destruction.
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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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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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This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think.
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To love another person is to help them love God.
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Do you know of any more overwhelming and humbling expression for God's condescension and extravagance towards us human beings than that He places Himself, so to say, on the same level of choice with the world, just so that we may be able to choose; that God, if language dare speak thus, woos humankind - that He, the eternally strong one, woos sapless humanity? Yet, how insignificant is the young lover's choice between her pursuers by comparison with this choice between God and the world.
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It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.
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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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To pace about, looking to obtain status, looking to attain 'importance' - I can think of nothing more ridiculous.
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There can be no faith without risk.
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In the end, therefore, money will be the one thing people will desire, which is moreover only representative, an abstraction. Nowadays a young man hardly envies anyone his gifts, his art, the love of a beautiful girl, or his fame; he only envies him his money. Give me money, he will say, and I am saved...He would die with nothing to reproach himself with, and under the impression that if only he had had the money he might really have lived and might even have achieved something great.
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Faith is a marvel, and yet no human being is excluded from it; for that in which all human life is united is passion, and faith is a passion.
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I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.
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...knowing God is the condition for the sanctification of a human being by God's assistance and according to His intention. Wherever God is, there He is always creating... He wants to create a new human being. To need God is to become new. And to know God is the crucial thing.
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That is the road we all have to take - over the Bridge of Sight into eternity.
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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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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.
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What a misfortune to be a woman! And yet, the worst misfortune is not to understand what a misfortune it is.
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In the life of the individual when love awakens it is older than everything else, because when it exists it seems as if it has existed for a long time; it presupposes itself back into the distant past until all searching ends in the inexplicable origin.
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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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If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence.
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Fate, then, is the nothing of anxiety.
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The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.
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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.