Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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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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Take it and return it: the kiss of love.
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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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If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence.
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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.
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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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Sin is in itself separation from the good, but despair over sin is separation a second time.
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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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It is impossible to exist without passion.
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The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
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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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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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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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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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It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.
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I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep, for that would be a pity, for sleeping is the highest accomplishment of genius.
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Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy — to be a man who is brisk about his food and his work. Therefore, whenever I see a fly settling, in the decisive moment, on the nose of such a person of affairs; or if he is spattered with mud from a carriage which drives past him in still greater haste; or the drawbridge opens up before him; or a tile falls down and knocks him dead, then I laugh heartily.
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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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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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Imagine hidden in a simpler exterior a secret receptacle wherein the most precious treasure is deposited - there is a spring which has to be pressed, but the spring is hidden, and the pressure must have a certain strength, so that an accidental pressure would not be sufficient. So likewise is the hope of eternity hidden in man's inmost parts, and affliction is the pressure. When it presses the hidden spring, and strongly enough, then the contents appear in all their glory.