Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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Take it and return it: the kiss of love.
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Most people believe that the Christian commandments, e.g. to love one's neighbor as oneself, are intentionally a little too severe - like setting a clock half an hour ahead to make sure of not being late in the morning.
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Do it or don't do it - you will regret both.
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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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If a man wants to set up as an innkeeper and he does not succeed, it is not comic. If, on the contrary, a girl asks to be allowed to set up as a prostitute and she fails, as sometimes happens, it is comic.
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Only one deception is possible in the infinite sense, self-deception.
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Future is everything that past has forgotten.
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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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What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.... And people flock around the poet and say: 'Sing again soon' - that is, 'May new sufferings torment your soul but your lips be fashioned as before, for the cry would only frighten us, but the music, that is blissful.
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... the more one needs God the more perfect he is. To need God is nothing to be ashamed of but is perfection itself. It is the saddest thing in the world if a human being goes through life without discovering that he needs God!
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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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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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A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.
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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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Fate, then, is the nothing of anxiety.
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I'm so misunderstood that people misunderstand me even when I tell them I'm misunderstood.
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The great trick with a woman is to get rid of her while she think's she's rid of you.
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We live as if we were unaware of our impending destruction.
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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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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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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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It is impossible to exist without passion.
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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.