Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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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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My scholarly expectation is then that I may succeed in becoming clever in philosophy in spite of my stupidity.
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Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
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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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The object of Christian faith is not the teaching but the Teacher.
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Sin is in itself separation from the good, but despair over sin is separation a second time.
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Purity of heart is to will one thing.
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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection.
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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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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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If I had a humble spirit in my service who, when I asked for a glass of water, brought me the world's costliest wines blended in a chalice, I should dismiss him, in order to teach him that my pleasure consists, not in what I enjoy, but in having my own way.
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Love believes all things and yet is never deceived.
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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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It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.
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The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that.
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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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It was not to save a nation that Abraham went to sacrifice Isaac, nor to appease angry gods... Then why does Abraham do it? For God's sake... He does it for the sake of God because God demands proof of his faith... He was not justified by being virtuous, but by being an individual submitted to God in faith.
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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.
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To love another person is to help them love God.
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A man's personality is matured only when he appropriates the truth, whether it is spoken by Balaam's ass or a sniggering wag or an apostle or an angel.
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Human justice is very prolix, and yet at times quite mediocre; divine justice is more concise and needs no information from the prosecution, no legal papers, no interrogation of witnesses, but makes the guilty one his own informer and helps him with eternity's memory.
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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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Your own tactic is to train yourself in the art of becoming enigmatic to everybody. My young friend, suppose there was no one who troubld himself to guess your riddle--what joy, then, would you have in it?
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In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. ... My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known - no wonder, then, that I return the love.